Age-related changes in quality and fertility of porcine semen

Biological Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 381-386

  Tsakmakidis, Ioannis A ^a   Khalifa, Tarek A A ^b   Boscos, Costas M ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b EquiBiotech Research Services in Animal Breeding   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boar age; Boar semen; Morphology; Morphometry; Sperm chromatin

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWINE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE;

EID: 84875300830     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: 07176287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602012000400009     Document Type: Article

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