Quality and fertility of cooled-shipped stallion semen at the time of insemination

Theriogenology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 849-856

  Heckenbichler, Sabine ^a   Deichsel, Katharina ^a   Peters, Pamela ^a   Aurich, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cooled shipped semen; Fertility; Horse; Semen processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; COLD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEMEN; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 79951811591     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2010.10.027     Document Type: Article

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