Evaluating the effects of a single copy of a mutation in the myostatin gene (c.*1232G>A) on carcass traits in crossbred lambs

Meat Science

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 412-418

  Masri, A Y ^a   Lambe, N R ^a   Macfarlane, J M ^a   Brotherstone, S ^b   Haresign, W ^c   Bunger L ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C.*1232G>A; Carcass traits; Computer tomography; Crossbred lambs; Myostatin; Video image analysis

Indexed keywords

CARCASS TRAITS; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CROSSBRED LAMBS; MYOSTATIN; VIDEO IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS; FABRICS; GENES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

MYOSTATIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; MUTATION; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEAT; MUSCLES; MUTATION; MYOSTATIN; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 78651258358     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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