Semen quality parameters as fertility predictors of water buffalo bull spermatozoa during low-breeding season

Theriogenology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1516-1522

  Ahmed, Hussain ^a,b   Andrabi, S Murtaza Hassan ^a   Jahan, Sarwat ^b  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Buffalo bull; CASA; In vivo fertility; Mitochondrial transmembrane potential; Plasma membrane integrity; Prognostic value

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; BUFFALO; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; INSEMINATION; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SEASON; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VETERINARY;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; BREEDING; BUFFALOES; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; INSEMINATION; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; PREGNANCY; SEASONS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84994860777     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2016.05.010     Document Type: Article

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