Greenlip abalone (Haliotis laevigata Donovan, 1808) sperm cryopreservation using a programmable freezing technique and testing the addition of amino acid and vitamin

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Funding Acknowledgements

We appreciate the financial support from Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre (project no. 2010/755), Australian Abalone Growers Association and South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). We thank Mr Tom Hyde and Mr Craig Marshall of SAM Abalone and Mr David Connell of Kangaroo Island Abalone for the provision of abalone broodstock and advice on spawning induction. We also thank Dr Paul Van Ruth and Dr James Paterson for assistance in the usage of flow cytometry.