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Breeding and transgenesis as means of decreasing adiposity in farm animal species: practice and promise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

H. D. Griffin ,
N. D. Cameron  and
G. Bulfieldi
H. D. Griffin
Affiliation:
Departments of Cellular and Molecular Biology, AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Edinburgh Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS
N. D. Cameron
Affiliation:
Departments of Biometrical Genetics, AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Edinburgh Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS
G. Bulfieldi
Affiliation:
Departments of Cellular and Molecular Biology, AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Edinburgh Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS
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Symposium on ‘The manipulation of adiposity’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , December 1992 , pp. 441 - 446
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1992

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