Relationships between lamb carcass quality traits measured by X-ray computed tomography and current UK hill sheep breeding goals

Animal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-43

  Lambe, N R ^a   Conington, J ^a   Bishop, S C ^b   McLean, K A ^a   Bunger L ^a   McLaren, A ^a   Simm, G ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body composition; Carcass composition; Computed tomography; Genetic parameters; Sheep

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 42649099946     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731107001061     Document Type: Article

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