Efficiency of different extenders on cooled semen collected during long and short day length seasons in Martina Franca donkey

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 120, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 136-141

  Contri, Alberto ^a   De Amicis, Ippolito ^a   Veronesi, Maria Cristina ^b   Faustini, Massimo ^b   Robbe, Domenico ^a   Carluccio, Augusto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooled semen; Donkey; Season; Semen extender

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; SEASON; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM RETRIEVAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EFFICIENCY; EQUIDAE; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS; SEMEN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM RETRIEVAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 77954862664     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2010.02.018     Document Type: Article

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