A comprehensive search for quantitative trait loci affecting growth and carcass composition of cattle segregating alternative forms of the myostatin gene

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 854-860

  Casas, E ^a,b   Stone, R T ^a   Keele, J W ^a   Shackelford, S D ^a   Kappes, S M ^a,c   Koohmaraie, M ^a  

^a U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NPS ^*  (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beef; Double Muscling; Genetic Markers; Loci; Myostatin Gene; Quantitative Traits

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

MYOSTATIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY COMPOSITION; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; CATTLE; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0035318159     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/2001.794854x     Document Type: Article

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