QTL for microstructural and biophysical muscle properties and body composition in pigs

BMC Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wimmers, Klaus ^a,b   Fiedler, Ilse ^a   Hardge, Torsten ^c,d   Murani, Eduard ^a,b   Schellander, Karl ^b   Ponsuksili, Siriluck ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PH; PHENOTYPE; PIG FARMING; PLEIOTROPY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MEAT; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33646252501     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-7-15     Document Type: Article

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