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Original Articles

Plasma Cholesterol Concentrations in Growing Bulls

The Effect of Age, Sire Breed and Diet Partial Correlations to Weight Gain, Feed Conversion, Fat Thickness and Total Fat in Carcass

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Pages 12-16 | Received 25 Mar 1981, Published online: 07 Sep 2009

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