Evaluation of ACE, SP17, and FSHB as candidates for stallion fertility in Hanoverian warmblood horses

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 200-206

  Giesecke, K ^a   Hamann, H ^a   Stock, K F ^a   Klewitz, J ^a   Martinsson, G ^b   Distl, O ^a   Sieme, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b National Stud Lower Saxony   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association; Conception rate; Haplotype; Horse; SNP

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; FOLLITROPIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FERTILITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HORSE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; FERTILITY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HORSES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPERMATOZOA;

EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79961173343     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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