Ruminant physiology : digestion, metabolism, growth and reproduction /

• Corporate Author: International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000.
• Subjects: Ruminants > Congresses. > Physiology; Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000); Animal Nutrition (Physiology); Ruminants.; Digestion.; Growth.; Metabolism.; Nutrition physiology.; Physiology.; Reproduction.; Rumen metabolism.; Electronic books.
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• Item Description: "The IX International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology was held in Pretoria, South Africa, during October 1999"--Foreword.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 474 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This volume contains 26 chapters in sections on regulation of feed intake, rumen microbiology and fermentation, nutrient absorption and splanchnic metabolism, tissue maintenance and utilization of endogenous body reserves, tissue growth, reproduction, pregnancy and lactation, ruminant physiology and genetics, and host resistance to parasites and pathogens. The chapters are the plenary papers presented at the IX International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology in Pretoria, South Africa during October 1999.