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The Weaker Sex? The Propensity for Male-Biased Piglet Mortality

For the most part solutions to farm animal welfare issues, such as piglet mortality, are likely to lie within the scientific disciplines of environmental design and genetic selection, however understanding the ecological basis of some of the complex dynamics observed between parent and offspring cou...

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Autores principales: Baxter, Emma M., Jarvis, Susan, Palarea-Albaladejo, Javier, Edwards, Sandra A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22272334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030318