Cryopreservation of the Bovine Oocyte: Current Status and Perspectives

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL.3, 2012, Pages 76-83

  Diez C ^a   Munoz M ^a   Caamano J N ^a   Gomez E ^a  

^a Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; OOCYTES;

EID: 84862256449     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2012.02029.x     Document Type: Review

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