The effects of a loin muscling quantitative trait locus (LoinMAX ™) on carcass and VIA-based traits in crossbred lambs

Animal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-416

  Masri, A Y ^a   Lambe, N R ^a   MacFarlane, J M ^a   Brotherstone, S ^b   Haresign, W ^c   Rius Vilarrasa, E ^a   Bunger L ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer tomography; Crossbred lambs; LoinMAXtrade; QTL; Muscling; Video image analysis

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77951256742     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S175173110999125X     Document Type: Article

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