Effect of embryo density on in vitro developmental characteristics of bovine preimplantative embryos with respect to micro and macroenvironments

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Hoelker, M ^a   Rings, F ^a   Lund, Q ^a   Phatsara, C ^a   Schellander, K ^a   Tesfaye, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77957131153     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2009.01535.x     Document Type: Article

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