Protecting and extending fertility for females of wild and endangered mammals

Cancer Treatment and Research

Volumn 156, Issue , 2010, Pages 87-100

  Comizzoli, Pierre ^a   Songsasen, Nucharin ^b   Wildt, David E ^b  

^a Georgetown Veterinary Hospital   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL GENETICS; BREEDING; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ONCOLOGY; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY CELL CULTURE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE SPECIES; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; WILD SPECIES; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 77956381660     PISSN: 09273042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6518-9_7     Document Type: Review

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