Immunocontraception in wild horses (Equus caballus) extends reproductive cycling beyond the normal breeding season

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Nuñez, Cassandra M V ^a   Adelman, James S ^a   Rubenstein, Daniel I ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HORSE; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; MATING; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; UNITED STATES; WEATHER; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; SUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; HORSES; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 78149426488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013635     Document Type: Article

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