The relationship within and between production performance and meat quality characteristics in pigs from three different genetic lines

Livestock Science

Volumn 115, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 258-267

  Latorre, M A ^a   Pomar, C ^b   Faucitano, L ^b   Gariepy C ^c   Methot S ^b  

^a Agrifood Institute of Aragón IA2   (Spain)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c FOOD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Correlation; Genotype; Meat quality; Pigs; Production performance

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 41949141761     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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