QTL for meat tenderness in the M. longissimus lumborum of cattle

Animal Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-45

  Davis, G P ^a,b   Moore, S S ^a,c   Drinkwater, R D ^a,d   Shorthose, W R ^a   Loxton, I D ^a,e   Barendse, W ^a   Hetzel, D J S ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ZOETIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Xenome Ltd   (Australia)

^e Beef Support Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cattle; DNA; Meat quality; Meat tenderness; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; MALE; MEAT; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FEMALE; LOD SCORE; MALE; MEAT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 38749149162     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2007.01677.x     Document Type: Article

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