Methane emissions from grazing Angus beef cows selected for divergent residual feed intake

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 166-167, Issue , 2011, Pages 302-307

  Jones, F M ^a   Phillips, F A ^b   Naylor, T ^b   Mercer, N B ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Methane; Open path Fourier Transform infrared spectrophotometer; Residual feed intake

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

EID: 79958771655     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2011.04.020     Document Type: Article

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