Relationships between beef carcass shape and muscle to bone ratio

Meat Science

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 329-337

  Purchas, R W ^a   Fisher, A V ^b   Price, M A ^c   Berg, R T ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beef carcass composition; Gender differences; Muscle to bone ratio; Muscularity

Indexed keywords

GENDER DIFFERENCES;

BONE; COMPOSITION; MUSCLE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MEATS;

FRIESIA;

EID: 0036019682     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1740(01)00201-7     Document Type: Article

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