@conference {3678,
	title = {BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Are fetal programming effects, due to maternal early pregnancy nutrition, evident in adult male offspring in sheep?},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {74},
	year = {2014},
	month = {06/2014},
	pages = {209-211},
	address = {Napier},
	abstract = {Manipulation of fetal development processes via maternal nutritional intervention can affect the physiology and cellular function of adult offspring through a process known as fetal programming (Harding \& Johnson 1995). Nutritional status of the dam in the first trimester of pregnancy is crucial to fetal development because, although fetal energy requirements in early pregnancy are relatively small, and thus, total nutrient demand is typically low, fetal metabolic activity is very high and organogenesis is occurring (Harding \& Johnson 1995)...},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Pain SJ and Asmad K and Fermin LM and Kenyon PR and Blair HT}
}
@conference {3678,
	title = {BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Comparison of early embryo development in Cheviot and Suffolk breeds of sheep},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {74},
	year = {2014},
	month = {06/2014},
	pages = {202-204},
	address = {Napier},
	abstract = {Maternal constraint is the major non-genetic factor determining the size of the fetus at term (Gluckman \& Hanson 2004). Previous studies in various animal models have reported the effect of maternal size on birth size and postnatal growth, (Allen et al. 2002; Gardner et al. 2007) whereby fetal development and birth weight are reduced in a restricted maternal uterine environment, while enhanced in a luxurious uterine environment...},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Fermin LM and Pain SJ and Blair HT and Kenyon PR}
}
