Recent advances in boar sperm cryopreservation: State of the art and current perspectives

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 71-79

  Yeste, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; HEAT; MALE; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; TIME; TRENDS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; HOT TEMPERATURE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; OVULATION; SEASONS; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84950110597     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rda.12569     Document Type: Review

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