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Non ruminants nutrition and feeding

Feeding finishing heavy pigs with corn silages: effects on backfat fatty acid composition and ham weight losses during seasoning

Diego CapraroDipartimento di Scienze AgroAlimentari, Ambientali e Animali, University of Udine, Udine, Italy; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-3743-960XView further author information
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Arianna BuccioniDipartimento di Scienze delle Produzioni Agroalimentari e dell'Ambiente, University of Florence, Firenze, ItalyORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-3289-1840View further author information
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Edi PiasentierDipartimento di Scienze AgroAlimentari, Ambientali e Animali, University of Udine, Udine, Italy; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-6507-9360View further author information
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Mauro SpangheroDipartimento di Scienze AgroAlimentari, Ambientali e Animali, University of Udine, Udine, Italy; Correspondence[email protected]
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Pages 588-592 | Received 01 Sep 2016, Accepted 30 Jan 2017, Published online: 22 Mar 2017

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