Sperm characteristics of male hybrid from a cross between male black grouse tetrao tetrix and female capercaillie T. urogallus

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 149-152

  Ciereszko, Andrzej ^a   Kowalczyk, Artur ^a   Łukaszewicz, Ewa ^b   Krzywiński, Andrzej ^b   Kobus, Armin ^c   Dietrich, J Grzegorz ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c Wildlife Park Kadzidłowo ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMEBIRD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYBRID; HYBRID ZONE; MORPHOLOGY; SPERM;

TETRAO TETRIX;

EID: 73949157037     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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