Gestation length, birth weight and offspring gender ratio of in vitro-produced Gyr (Bos indicus) cattle embryos

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 120, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 10-15

  Camargo, Luiz Sergio Almeida ^a   Freitas, Celio ^a   de Sa, Wanderlei Ferreira ^a   de Moraes Ferreira, Ademir ^a   Serapiao, Raquel Varela ^a   Viana, João Henrique Moreira ^a  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bovine; Cattle; In vitro fertilization; Offspring; Zebu

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX RATIO; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; CATTLE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SEX RATIO; TIME FACTORS;

BOS; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 77954863915     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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