Reproduction and advances in reproductive studies in carnivores

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 753, Issue , 2014, Pages 205-239

  Jewgenow, Katarina ^a   Songsasen, Nucharin ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Genome resource bank; Non invasive endocrine monitoring; Ovarian tissue cryopreservation; Reproductive mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BEAR; BREEDING METHOD; CANIDAE; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CARNIVORE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLADISTICS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FECES ANALYSIS; FELIDAE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETOGENESIS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; MUSTELIDAE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPERM PRESERVATION; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; BREEDING; GERMPLASM; MATING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPARISON; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 84958986953     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-820-2_10     Document Type: Article

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