Sperm storage in males of the snake Crotalus durissus terrificus (Crotalinae: Viperidae) in southeastern Brazil

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 169-174

  Almeida Santos, Selma M ^a   Laporta Ferreira, Iara L ^a   Antoniazzi, Marta M ^a   Jared, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crotalus; Rattlesnake; Reproduction; Seasonality; Serpentes; Sperm storage; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OVULATION; SNAKE; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPRING; SUMMER; VAS DEFERENS; WINTER;

CROTALINAE; CROTALUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS TERRIFICUS; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 7444234245     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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