Assessment of very long-chain fatty acids as complementary or alternative natural fecal markers to n-alkanes for estimating diet composition of goats feeding on mixed diets.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of Animal Science

• Publication date

  2009-08-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2527/jas.2008-1718PMID 19395523
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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