Voluntary feed intake in pigs (Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2009)
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Voluntary feed intake and pig breeding -- Voluntary feed intake in piglets: potential impact of early experience with flavours derived from the maternal diet -- Integration of pre- and post-absorptive factors in feed intake regulation and prediction with particular respect to the pig -- Taste receptor biology -- Feed appetence in pigs: an oronasal sensing perspective -- Diffuse chemosensory system -- Hormonal control of feed intake in swine -- Metabolic regulation of feed intake in monogastric mammals -- Evaluation of free-choice feedstuffs preference by pigs -- Antinutritional factors: impact on pigs' voluntary feed intake -- Feed manufacturing technology and feed intake in young pigs -- Feeding behaviour and social influences on feed intake -- Anorexia during infection in mammals: variation and its sources -- Models to predict feed intake