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Residual feed intake in beef cattle and its association with carcass traits, ruminal solid-fraction bacteria, and epithelium gene expression

BACKGROUND: Residual feed intake (RFI) describes an animal’s feed efficiency independent of growth performance. The objective of this study was to determine differences in growth performance, carcass traits, major bacteria attached to ruminal solids-fraction, and ruminal epithelium gene expression b...

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Autores principales: Elolimy, Ahmed A., Abdelmegeid, Mohamed K., McCann, Joshua C., Shike, Daniel W., Loor, Juan J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6151901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30258628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40104-018-0283-8