Hormonal changes in female buffaloes under shading in tropical climate of Eastern Amazon, Brazil

The hormonal responses of 20 female buffaloes raised under the sun (SS group) or in the shade (CS group) in Belém, Pará, Brazil, were assessed. The CS group (n = 10) was kept in a silvopasture system featuring Racosperma mangium, whereas the SS group (n = 10) was kept in paddocks without shade featu...

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Main Authors: Jamile Andréa Rodrigues da Silva, Airton Alencar de Araújo, José de Brito Lourenço Júnior, Núbia de Fátima Alves dos Santos, Rinaldo Batista Viana, Alexandre Rossetto Garcia, Davide Rondina, Márcia Mascarenhas Grise
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia 2014-01-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982014000100007&tlng=en