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Effect of dietary energy restriction and subsequent compensatory feeding on testicular transcriptome in developing rams.
Theriogenology - 1 Oct 2018
Fan Y X, Wang Z, Ren C F, Ma T W, Deng K P, Feng X, Li F Z, Wang F, Zhang Y L
Abstract excerpt
Nutritional intake and reproductive allocation are strongly associated and dietary energy restriction (ER) or surpluses can affect reproductive capacity. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of energy levels on sheep testicular development. Three-month old Hu sheep were assigned to four groups, and fed diets containing different levels of energy (Control, maintenance energy; ER1, 85%...
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