The fertility of frozen boar sperm when used for artificial insemination

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 90-97

  Knox, R V ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TIME; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84950124050     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rda.12552     Document Type: Review

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