The use of muscle protein for egg production in the Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata

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Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 210-217

  Cottam, Mat ^a   Houston, David ^a   Lobley, Gerald ^b   Hamilton, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; NUTRITION; PASSERINE; PROTEIN;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036062899     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2002.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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