Recent Nutritional Advances to Mitigate Methane Emission in Cattle: A Review

Subject Areas : Camel

A.  Hadipour ¹ (Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran)
ا.  محیط ² (گروه علوم دامی، دانشکده علوم کشاورزی، دانشگاه گیلان، رشت، ایران)
H.  Darmani Kuhi ³ (Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran)
F.  Hashemzadeh ⁴ (Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran)

Received: 2020-02-15 Accepted : 2020-05-31 Published : 2021-03-01

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