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Comparative Animal Nutrition and Metabolism

By: Cheeke, Peter Robert.
Contributor(s): Dierenfeld, Ellen S.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: UK: CABI; 2010Edition: First ed.Description: 350 p.ISBN: 1845936310 (paperback); 9781845936310 (paperback).Subject(s): Animal Nutrition | Animal MetabolismDDC classification: 636.08932 Cheeke 28866 1st 2010 Animal.Nutrition Summary: Nutrition is a very broad discipline, encompassing biochemistry, physiology, endocrinology, immunology, microbiology and pathology. Presenting the major principles of nutrition of both domestic and wild animals, this book takes a comparative approach, recognizing that there are considerable differences in nutrient digestion, metabolism and requirements among various mammalian and avian species. Explaining species differences in food selection, food-seeking and digestive strategies and their significance to nutritional needs, chapters cover a broad range of topics including digestive physiology, metabolic disorders and specific nutrients such as carbohydrates proteins and lipids, with particular attention being paid to nutritional and metabolic idiosyncrasies.
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Animal Nutrition
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Nutrition is a very broad discipline, encompassing biochemistry, physiology, endocrinology, immunology, microbiology and pathology. Presenting the major principles of nutrition of both domestic and wild animals, this book takes a comparative approach, recognizing that there are considerable differences in nutrient digestion, metabolism and requirements among various mammalian and avian species. Explaining species differences in food selection, food-seeking and digestive strategies and their significance to nutritional needs, chapters cover a broad range of topics including digestive physiology, metabolic disorders and specific nutrients such as carbohydrates proteins and lipids, with particular attention being paid to nutritional and metabolic idiosyncrasies.

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