Impact of two myostatin (MSTN) mutations on weight gain and lamb carcass classification in Norwegian White Sheep (Ovis aries)

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Boman, Inger A ^a,b   Klemetsdal, Gunnar ^a   Nafstad, Ola ^c   Blichfeldt, Thor ^b   Våge, Dag I ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b The Norwegian Association of Sheep and Goat Breeders   (Norway)

^c Animalia   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PROTEIN; SHEEP; WEANING; WEIGHT;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

MYOSTATIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; NORWAY; SHEEP; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; MYOSTATIN; NORWAY; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 77952776256     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1297-9686-42-4     Document Type: Article

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