Consequences of nutrition during gestation, and the challenge to better understand and enhance livestock productivity and efficiency in pastoral ecosystems

Animal Production Science

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1109-1118

  Greenwood, Paul L ^a,b   Bell, Alan W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

behaviour; fetal programming; neonate.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905678737     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: 18365787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AN14480     Document Type: Review

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