Relationships between meat quality measurements in rabbits fed with three diets of different fat type and content

Meat Science

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 379-384

  Hernandez P ^a   Pla, M ^a   Oliver, M A ^b   Blasco, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fat composition; Principal components; Rabbit meat quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034415917     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1740(99)00163-1     Document Type: Article

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