Quality of donkey meat and carcass characteristics

Meat Science

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1222-1224

  Polidori, P ^a   Vincenzetti, S ^b   Cavallucci, C ^a   Beghelli, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologiche e Biochimiche Comparate   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carcass quality; Donkey; Meat quality

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 52049097045     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2008.05.027     Document Type: Article

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