Selection for high production in pigs

Resource Allocation Theory Applied to Farm Animal Production

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 210-229

  Knap, P W ^a   Rauw, W M ^b  

^a PIC International Group   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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