Article
Whole-genome prediction of fatty acid composition in meat of Japanese Black cattle.
Animal genetics - 1 Oct 2015
Onogi A, Ogino A, Komatsu T, Shoji N, Shimizu K, Kurogi K, Yasumori T, Togashi K, Iwata H
Abstract excerpt
Because fatty acid composition influences the flavor and texture of meat, controlling it is particularly important for cattle breeds such as the Japanese Black, characterized by high meat quality. We evaluated the predictive ability of single-step genomic best linear unbiased prediction (ssGBLUP) in fatty acid composition of Japanese Black cattle by assessing the composition of seven fatty acids in 3088 cattle,...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Fatty Acids
- Female
- Genome
- Genotype
- Male
- Meat
- Models, Genetic
- Pedigree
- Phenotype