Effect of excess methionine and methionine hydroxy analogue on growth performance and plasma homocysteine of growing Pekin ducks

Poultry Science

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1995-1999

  Xie, M ^a,b   Hou, S S ^a,b   Huang, W ^a,b   Fan, H P ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition   (China)

Author keywords

Duck; Methionine; Methionine hydroxy analogue; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANAS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES;

EID: 35348845073     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/86.9.1995     Document Type: Article

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