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Expression study on the porcine PTHLH gene and its relationship with sow teat number.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Oct 2011
Martínez-Giner M, Noguera J L, Balcells I, Alves E, Varona L, Pena R N
Abstract excerpt
Teat number is an important trait in sows that should accompany the increase in litter size that has been achieved in the last decades through selection. We have previously identified a genome-wide significant QTL for teat number in porcine chromosome SSC5 by means of an experimental Meishan by Iberian F(2) intercross population. In the present report, we have studied the porcine parathyroid hormone-like hormone...
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