Birth of offspring after artificial insemination of heifers with frozen-thawed, sex-sorted, re-frozen-thawed bull sperm

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 118, Issue 2-4, 2010, Pages 171-175

  Underwood, S L ^a   Bathgate, R ^a   Maxwell, W M C ^a   Evans, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial insemination; Sex preselection; Sperm sexing; Timing of insemination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CELL SEPARATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION DETECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL SEPARATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOT TEMPERATURE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION DETECTION; PREGNANCY; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 74449083449     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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