Bos indicus-cross feedlot cattle with excitable temperaments have tougher meat and a higher incidence of borderline dark cutters
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Meat Science
- Vol. 46 (4) , 367-377
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0309-1740(97)00031-4
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