Artificial insemination to cloning : tracing 50 years of research /
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- Animal scientists : nature and nurture
- Dairy cattle
- Background and general references
- Objectives of the AI program : to obtain sires superior in genetics, sperm production, and fertility
- Genetic selection of bulls
- Testes : the sperm-producing factory
- Testes : size, consistency, and the relationship to semen quality
- Evaluation of bulls for fertility
- Nutrition of young bulls
- Nutrition of adult bulls
- Sexual behavior of bulls
- Semen collection equipment
- Frequency and management of semen collection
- Semen composition and sperm metabolism
- Capacitation, the acrosome reaction, and hamster oocyte penetration
- Evaluation of sperm in fresh semen
- Evaluation of sperm in extended semen
- Extenders for liquid semen
- Extending and processing liquid semen
- Extending and processing frozen semen
- Sperm manipulation and sex ratios
- Nutrition of Holstein heifers
- Reproductive management of cows and detection of estrus
- Superovulation in prepubertal cattle
- Embyro evaluation and direct transfer
- Embryo culture and transfer
- Embryos produced and cultured in vitro (IVF)
- Oocyte maturation and IVF
- Oocyte maturation, activation, and cloning
- Male reproductive system
- Testicular function : spermatogenesis
- Testicular function : steroid hormones and behavior
- Semen collection
- Semen composition and evaluation
- Semen processing and insemination
- Sperm antigens and fertility
- Reproductive toxicology in males
- Timing oogenesis and the aging ovary
- Ovulation and superovulation
- Oocyte maturation and micromanipulation
- Embryo culture and evaluation
- Embryo storage and metabolism
- Embryo manipulation and cloning
- Aging female rabbits and reproductive failure
- Pregnancy, embryo mortality, and contraception
- Horses
- Swine
- Sheep
- Goats
- Dogs
- Ferret nonsurgical artificial insemination and embryo transfer
- Human semen analysis
- Experimental design and modeling
- Animal biotechnology and ethics
- Cloning