Multi-year fertility reduction in free-roaming feral horses with single-injection immunocontraceptive formulations

Wildlife Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 475-481

  Gray, Meeghan E ^a   Thain, David S ^a   Cameron, Elissa Z ^b   Miller, Lowell A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

field study; GnRH vaccine; immunocontraception; population control; PZP vaccine; side effects; wild horses

Indexed keywords

FERTILITY; FIELDWORK; HORSE; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; INFERTILITY; POPULATION REGULATION; SEX HORMONE; SEX RATIO; WILD POPULATION;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; SUS;

EID: 77958451838     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR09175     Document Type: Article

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