Comparative reproductive biology / edited by Heide Schatten, Gheorghe M. Constantinescu. - 1st edition - Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2007. - xiii, 402 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Developmental Anatomy of Reproductive Organs
Ileana A. Constantinescu

Chapter 2 Anatomy of Reproductive Organs
Gheorghe M. Constantinescu

Chapter 3 Histology, Cellular and Molecular Biology of Reproductive Organs
Heide Schatten

Part 1: Introduction to Histology, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Heide Schatten
Part 2: Overview of Male Reproductive Organs
Cheryl Rosenfeld
Part 3: Comparative Histology and Subcellular Structures of Mammalian
Spermatogenesis and Spermatozoa
Gaurishankar Manandhar and Peter Sutovsky
Part 4: Overview of Female Reproductive Organs
Cheryl Rosenfeld and Heide Schatten
Part 5: Fertilization
Heide Schatten

Chapter 4 Comparative Reproductive Physiology of Domestic Animals
Eric M. Walters

Chapter 5 Transgenic Animals
Yuksel Agca and Anthony W.S. Chan

Chapter 6 Gender Selection in Mammalian Semen and Pre-implantation Embryos
Yuksel Agca and Hongshen Men

Chapter 7 Artificial Insemination
Gary Althouse

Chapter 8 Embryo Transfer and In Vitro Fertilization
John F. Hasler

Chapter 9 The Comparative Cryobiology of Preimplantation Embryos from
Domestic Animals
Steven F. Mullen and John K. Critser

Chapter 10 Animal Cloning
Liangxue Lai and Randall S. Pratherr

Chapter 11 Introductory Chapter on Comparative Placentation
Cheryl Rosenfeld

Chapter 12 Comparative Placentation
Bhanu Prakash Telugu and Jonathan A. Green

Chapter 13 Pregnancy Diagnosis in Domestic Animals
Clifford F. Shipley
Part 1: Pregnancy Diagnosis in the Mare
Clifford F. Shipley
Part 2: Bovine Pregnancy Diagnosis
Herris Maxwell
Part 3: Pregnancy Diagnosis in Swine
Ross P. Coward
Part 4: Pregnancy Diagnosis in the ewe
Manoel Tamassia
Part 5: Canine and Feline Pregnancy Diagnosis
Suzanne Whitaker and Richard Meadows

Chapter 14 Ultrasonography in Small Ruminant Reproduction
Sabine Meinecke-Tillmann and Burkhard Meinecke

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Domestic animals--Reproduction.
Animal breeding.
Artificial insemination.
Veterinary obstetrics.
Reproduction.
Anatomy, Comparative.
Animals, Domestic--physiology.
Physiology, Comparative.
Reproductive Techniques--veterinary.

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