Veterinary Andrology and Reproductive Techniques

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We, the course content developers for the course VGO-511: Veterinary Andrology and Reproductive Techniques (1+1), gratefully acknowledge the help and support rendered by

the Co-Teachers of this module, Dr.D.Antoine, Professor and Head, Rajiv Gandhi College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Puduchery, and Dr.G. Ajithkumar, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, Kerala, and

the external peer reviewers – Dr. T.Sreekumaran, Professor and Head (Rtd.), College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, Kerala, Dr.Suresh S Honnappagol, Vice-Chancellor, KVAFSU, Bidar, Karnataka and Dr.M.K.Tandle, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Sciences, KVAFSU, Bidar

in perfecting the e-Contents and in fine tuning the e-Contents by providing inputs, texts, visuals, etc., respectively, deserve appreciation.

We are very much thankful to the Director of Animal Husbandry, Government of Tamil Nadu and Deputy Director, Frozen Semen Production Station (FSPS), Exotic Cattle Breeding Farm (ECBF), Eachenkottai, Tanjore (Dt) and the technocrats for having given permission to utilize the resources available at the farm.

We express our sincere thanks to Dr.Maarten Drost who has been magnanimous enough to give permission to use pictures from The Drost Project http://drostproject.org. Our Special thanks go to Select Sires for allowing us to use their illustrations from www.selectsires and NSW Department of Industry and Investment for allowed us to use the pictures from www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/.com.com. We are thankful to the General Manager, Sabarmati Ashram Gaushala, Bidaj farm for permitted us to utilize some of the photographs from their farm.

While every effort was made to quote the sources, references and other materials we have used in this e-Module, this e-resource being meant strictly for academic use by the student community and teaching fraternity of animal and veterinary sciences, we also thank all the other scientists and sources whose contributions we might have unwittingly infringed and to whom we might have failed to convey our acknowledgement and gratitude.

M.Selvaraju,
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Animal Reproduction, Gynaecology and Obstetrics,
Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal - 637 002.
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S. Manokaran,
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Animal Reproduction, Gynaecology and Obstetrics
Veterinary College and Research Institure, Namakkal - 637 002.
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