Article
Associations of the variation in the porcine myogenin gene with muscle fibre characteristics, lean meat production and meat quality traits.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Apr 2009
Kim J M, Choi B D, Kim B C, Park S S, Hong K C
Abstract excerpt
Pig breeding is aimed at improving lean meat production ability as well as meat quality, and muscle fibre characteristics may be important for enhancing these traits. Therefore, new molecular markers have been demanded for selecting lean meat production ability and meat quality in live animals. Myogenin belongs to the MyoD gene family, and is a candidate gene responsible for muscle fibre characteristics. We...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Linear Models
- Meat
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal
- Myogenin
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide