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Use of plant hydrocarbons as markers to estimate voluntary intake and digestibility in beef steers

Stephen Chavez, G. B. Huntington, J.S. Burns

Livestock Science · 2011 · 11 citations · 22 references

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Effect of temperature on alkane extraction from faeces and herbage

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