Meat quality traits and muscle characteristics in high or low fear lines of Japanese quails (Coturnix japonica) subjected to acute stress

British Poultry Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 372-378

  Remignon, H ^a,b   Mills, A D ^a   Guemene, D ^a   Desrosiers, V ^a   Garreau Mills, M ^a   Marche, M ^a   Marche, G ^a  

^a STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CREATINE KINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; COTURNIX; EXERCISE; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; MALE; MEAT; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; COLOR; CORTICOSTERONE; COTURNIX; CREATINE KINASE; GLYCOLYSIS; MALE; MEAT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032110321     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071669888926     Document Type: Article

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