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Animals were fed diets free of threonine, lysine or protein with or without tail cups to prevent coprophagy. The animals fed the threonine- and protein-free diets lost weight rapidly whereas those fed the lysine-free diet lost weight slowly regardless of whether coprophagy was prevented or not. It is concluded that the modest weight loss caused by the lysine-free diet is not due to the availability of lysine from fecal material.
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