The oviduct: A key organ for the success of early reproductive events

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 25-31

  Avilés, Manuel ^a   Coy, Pilar ^b   Rizos, Dimitrios ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capacitation; Embryo; Fallopian tube; Oocyte; Oviduct; Sperm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988981935     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2015-0005     Document Type: Article

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