Selection of developmentally competent sheep oocytes using the brilliant cresyl blue test and the relationship to follicle size and oocyte diameter

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 244-249

  Karami Shabankareh, Hamed ^a   Mirshamsi, Seyed Mehdi ^a  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brilliant cresyl blue; Oocyte growth; Ovarian follicles; Sheep oocyte

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84861199866     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2012.02.017     Document Type: Article

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