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Nutrition & Metabolism

Direct supplementation of diet is the most efficient way of enriching broiler meat with n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids

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Pages 753-765 | Accepted 28 Jun 2013, Published online: 08 Jan 2014

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