Impact of nutrition on the microflora of the gastro-intestinal tract in horses

Applied Equine Nutrition: Equine NUtrition COnference (ENUCO) 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 85-103

  Julliand, Véronique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

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