Relationship between the Porcine Stress Syndrome gene and carcass and performance traits in F2 pigs resulting from divergent crosses

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 92-96

  Band, Guilherme de Oliveira ^a   Guimarães, Simone Eliza Facioni ^a   Lopes, Paulo Sávio ^a   Peixoto, Jane de Oliveira ^a   Faria, Danielle Assis ^a   Pires, Aldrin Vieira ^a   Figueiredo, Frederico de Castro ^a   do Nascimento, Carlos Souza ^a   Gomide, Lúcio Alberto de Miranda ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carcass; PCR RFLP; Performance; Pig; PSS gene

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CARCASS; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MEAT INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PORCINE STRESS SYNDROME GENE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STRESS; SWINE; SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 30644464953     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572005000100016     Document Type: Article

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