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Recent developments in cryopreservation of stallion semen with special emphasis on thawing procedure using thermal hysteresis proteins
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2008
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While the first attempt to cool and preserve stallion semen was done 200 years ago (by Spallazani) and the first pregnancy achieved with frozen-thawes stallion semen almost 40 years ago (Barker & Gandier, 1957), frozen stallion semen has not been used widely, mainly because of its association with low fertility.
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