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Maintenance Energy Requirements of Double-Muscled Belgian Blue Beef Cows

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Double-muscled Belgian Blue animals are extremely lean, characterized by a deviant muscle fiber type with more fast-glycolytic fibers, compared to non-double-muscled animals. This fiber type may result in lower maintenance energy requirements. On the other hand, lean meat animals mos...

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Autores principales: Fiems, Leo O., De Boever, Johan L., Vanacker, José M., De Campeneere, Sam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26479139
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani5010089