Subspecies and Body Size Allometry Affect Milk Production and Composition, and Calf Growth in Red Deer: Comparison of Cervus elaphus hispanicus and Cervus elaphus scoticus

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 594-602

  Landete Castillejos, Tomás ^a   García, Andrés ^a   Gómez, Jose Ángel ^a   Molina, Ana ^a   Gallego, Laureano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE;

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DEER; GROWTH; LACTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; SUBSPECIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEER; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLISM; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INTAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; DEER; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; FEMALE; LACTATION; LACTOSE; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; MILK; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS HISPANICUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0142104295     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375660     Document Type: Article

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