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Relationships between intramuscular fat content, selected carcass traits, and fatty acid profile in bulls using a F2-population.
Meat science - 1 Mar 2012
Hoehne A, Nuernberg G, Kuehn C, Nuernberg K
Abstract excerpt
The quality and nutritional value of beef is related to the amount of intramuscular fat (IMF) as well as to its fatty acid composition. In this study the relations between the IMF content and the total fatty acid composition, the fatty acids (FA) of triacylglycerols (TG) and the FA of phospholipids (PL) in longissimus muscle of F(2) Charolais×German Holstein crossbred bulls have been analysed. Polyunsaturated...
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