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Journal Articles (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
Items in this Collection
- 1Almeida, Fernanda R.
- 1Chiarini-Garcia, Helio
- 1Dyck, Michael K.
- 1Foxcroft, George R.
- 1Patterson, Jennifer L.
- 1Smit, M. N.
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Consequences of a low litter birth weight phenotype for postnatal lean growth performance and neonatal testicular morphology in the pig
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Foxcroft, George R., Chiarini-Garcia, Helio, Smit, M. N., Dyck, Michael K., Spencer, Joel D., Patterson, Jennifer L., Almeida, Fernanda R.
The consequences of a low litter average birth weight phenotype for postnatal growth performance and carcass quality of all progeny, and testicular development in male offspring, were investigated. Using data from 25 sows with one, and 223 sows with two consecutive farrowing events, individual...