The inheritance of non-response to noradrenaline in newborn Scottish Blackface lambs

Genetical Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 65-69

  Simpson, S P ^a   Slee, J ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; DRUG EFFECT; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; SHEEP;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; NOREPINEPHRINE; SHEEP;

EID: 0023955198     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001667230002396X     Document Type: Article

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