Nutritional skewing of conceptus sex in sheep: effects of a maternal diet enriched in rumen-protected polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)

BACKGROUND: Evolutionary theory suggests that in polygynous mammalian species females in better body condition should produce more sons than daughters. Few controlled studies have however tested this hypothesis and controversy exists as to whether body condition score or maternal diet is in fact the...

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Autores principales: Green, Mark P, Spate, Lee D, Parks, Tina E, Kimura, Koji, Murphy, Clifton N, Williams, Jim E, Kerley, Monty S, Green, Jonathan A, Keisler, Duane H, Roberts, R Michael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2432061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18541015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-6-21

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2432061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18541015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-6-21

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