Ovarian Fluid Mediates the Temporal Decline in Sperm Viability in a Fish with Sperm Storage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gasparini, Clelia ^a   Evans, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GUPPY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON LIFESPAN;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; OVARY; PIGMENTATION; POECILIA; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877765510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064431     Document Type: Article

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