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Disentangling the relative roles of resource acquisition and allocation on animal feed efficiency: insights from a dairy cow model

BACKGROUND: Feed efficiency of farm animals has greatly improved through genetic selection for production. Today, we are faced with the limits of our ability to predict the effect of selection on feed efficiency, partly because the relative importance of the components of this complex phenotype chan...

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Autores principales: Puillet, Laurence, Réale, Denis, Friggens, Nicolas C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27670924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-016-0251-8