Nutrition and Behavior Group Symposium on 'Measuring nutriet intake'. Measuring food intake in farm and laboratory animals

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 313-319

  Tolkamp, Bert J ^a   Day, Jon E L ^b   Kyriazakis, Ilias ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EATING; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FOOD; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SUCKLING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; EATING; FOOD; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0032059814     PISSN: 00296651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/pns19980046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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