Effect of growth rate and body mass on resting metabolic rate in galliform chicks

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 493-501

  Dietz, Maurine W ^a,b   Drent, Rudi H ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0031239070     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515858     Document Type: Article

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