Factors Affecting the Outcome of Artificial Insemination Using Cryopreserved Spermatozoa in the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Zoo Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 561-573

  Huang, Yan ^a   Li, Desheng ^a   Zhou, Yingmin ^a   Zhou, Qiang ^a   Li, Rengui ^a   Wang, Chengdong ^a   Huang, Zhi ^a   Hull, Vanessa ^b   Zhang, Hemin ^a  

^a China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda CCRCGP   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial insemination; Captive breeding; Cryopreservation; Endocrine monitoring; Giant panda

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BEAR; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPERMATOZOON; TIME; URINE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS; URSIDAE;

AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA;

EID: 84867023355     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: 10982361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoo.20421     Document Type: Article

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