Replacing dietary starch with pitted date fruit in nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (L.) feed

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 385-389

  Belal, I E H ^a   Al Jasser, M S ^a  

^a KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA;

EID: 0030916852     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.1997.tb01057.x     Document Type: Article

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