Impact of swine reproductive technologies on pig and global food production

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 752, Issue , 2014, Pages 131-160

  Knox, Robert V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Farrowing; Livestock; Pork production; Reproductive effi ciency; Swine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CARCASS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE CONTROL; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FERTILITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD QUALITY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC IMPROVEMENT; GENETIC TRAIT; GILT (SWINE); INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LITTER SIZE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BREEDING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; MALE; MEAT; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SWINE;

EID: 84934439877     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8887-3_7     Document Type: Article

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