Dietary energy intake affects fetal survival and development during early and middle pregnancy in Large White and Meishan gilts

Animal Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 152-159

  Che, Long ^a,b   Yang, Zhenguo ^a,b   Xu, Mengmeng ^a,b   Zhang, Ziyun ^a,b   Liu, Peilin ^a,b   Xu, Shengyu ^a,b   Che, Lianqiang ^a,b   Lin, Yan ^a,b   Fang, Zhengfeng ^a,b   Feng, Bin ^a,b   Li, Jian ^a,b   Wu, De ^a,b  

^a AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^b SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corpus luteum; Endometrium; Energy level; Fetal survival; pig

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014100911     PISSN: 24056545     EISSN: 24056383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aninu.2015.08.009     Document Type: Article

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