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Liver metabolism traits in two rabbit lines divergently selected for intramuscular fat.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jun 2018
Martínez-Álvaro M, Paucar Y, Satué K, Blasco A, Hernández P
Abstract excerpt
Intramuscular fat (IMF) has a large effect in the sensory properties of meat because it affects tenderness, juiciness and flavour. A divergent selection experiment for IMF in longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle was performed in rabbits. Since liver is the major site of lipogenesis in rabbits, the objective of this work is to study the liver metabolism in the lines of the divergent selection experiment. Intramuscular...
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