Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (1992), 51:441-446 Cambridge University Press

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doi:10.1079/PNS19920057

Symposium on ‘The manipulation of adiposity’

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

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