Genetics of meat quality and carcass traits

The Genetics of the Pig: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 355-389

  Ciobanu, Daniel C ^a   Lonergan, Steven M ^b   Huff Lonergan, Elisabeth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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