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Effects of maternal nutrition on conceptus growth and offspring performance: Implications for beef cattle production1
10 Oct 2009
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Developmental programming is the concept that a maternal stimulus or insult at a critical period in fetal development has long-term effects on the offspring. Historically, considerable effort has been made to understand how nutrition influences health and productivity during the postnatal period. Whereas maternal nutrition during pregnancy plays an essential role in proper fetal and placental development, less is...
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