Why egg yolk is yellow

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 47-49

  Blount, Jonathan D ^a   Houston, David C ^a   Moller, Anders Pape ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

EGG YOLK; EMBRYO; FOWL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 0034120568     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01774-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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