to achieve the desired level of animal performance providing animal food supplies containing mineral elements is essential. for this purpose, mineral elements of 8 important rangeland species, including ferula ovina, prangus uloptera, medicago sativa, lotus goeblia, trifolium montanum, melilotus officinalis, sanguisorba minor and stachys inflate, were measured at different growth stages in the ...

Effects of normal growth regulation on components of phenotypic variance and covariance of body weight were examined in a cross-fostering study of growth between 2 and 10 wk of age in ICR randombred mice. Different early growth rates caused genetic, postnatal maternal and residual environmental variances to increase, but these variances were subsequently reduced by negative autocorrelation betw...