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Relationships between nutrition, puberty and mammary development in cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Kris Sejrsen
Affiliation:
National Institute of Animal Science, Foulum, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
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Symposium on ‘Reproduction and fertility’
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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