Fat deposition in tropical sheep as adaptive attribute to periodic feed fluctuation
- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics
- Vol. 119 (4), 235-246
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1439-0388.2002.00344.x
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