Nutrition, Feeds and Feeding

Freshwater Prawn Culture: The Farming of Macrobrachium Rosenbergii

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 203-220

  D'Abramo, Louis R ^a   New, Michael Bernard ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wroxton Lodge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digestive physiology; Feeds; Nutrient requirements; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

FEEDING;

NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT;

NUTRITION;

EID: 84948138058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999554.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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