Boar Taint Detection Using Parasitoid Biosensors

Journal of Food Science

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wäckers, Felix ^a   Olson, Dawn ^b   Rains, Glen ^c   Lundby, Frank ^d   Haugen, John Erik ^d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c University of Georgia   (United States)

^d Norwegian Inst of Food Fisheries and Aquaculture Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Biosensors; Boar taint; Microplitis croceipes

Indexed keywords

ANDROST 16 EN 3 ONE; ANDROST-16-EN-3-ONE; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PHEROMONE; SKATOLE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEAT; METABOLISM; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SMELLING; SWINE; TASTE; VIDEORECORDING; WASP;

ANDROSTENES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDOLES; MALE; MEAT; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PHEROMONES; SKATOLE; SWINE; TASTE; VIDEO RECORDING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASPS;

MICROPLITIS CROCEIPES; SUIDAE;

EID: 78651437027     PISSN: 00221147     EISSN: 17503841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2010.01887.x     Document Type: Article

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