Muscularity and leg composition in lambs of different genotypes and ages at slaughter;Musculosidade e composição da perna de ovinos de diferentes genótipos e idades ao abate

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1129-1134

  Da Silva Sobrinho, Américo Garcia ^a   Purchas, Roger Walter ^b   Kadim, Isam Tawfik ^c   Yamamoto, Sandra Mari ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Carcass; Lamb; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 32644436337     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: 16783921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-204x2005001100011     Document Type: Article

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