Author:
Downes A. M.,Hutchinson J. C. D.
Abstract
SUMMARYThe length of wool grown per day, on closely clipped patches of the skin of two sheep exposed to an ambient temperature of 2 °C for 4 days, was reduced to 30% of normal. For individual fibres, this decrease was directly proportional to their normal growth. Fibre diameter was not affected. Growth in a warm 4-day period succeeding the cold period returned to normal and remained normal thereafter.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Genetics,Agronomy and Crop Science,Animal Science and Zoology
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