Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci for Carcass and Meat Quality Traits in a Wild Boar × Large White Intercross

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 694-700

  Andersson Eklund, L ^a   Marklund, L ^a   Lundstrom K ^a   Haley, C S ^b   Andersson, K ^a   Hansson, I ^a   Moller, M ^a   Andersson, L ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carcass Composition; Gene Mapping; Meat Quality; Quantitative Traits; Wild Pigs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; CROSS BREEDING; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEAT; ORGAN SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD; SWINE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; MEAT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SWINE;

EID: 0032013186     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1998.763694x     Document Type: Article

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