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Longissimus dorsi muscle transcriptomic analysis of Yunling and Chinese simmental cattle differing in intramuscular fat content and fatty acid composition.
Genome - 1 Aug 2018
Zhang H M, Xia H L, Jiang H R, Mao Y J, Qu K X, Huang B Z, Gong Y C, Yang Z P
Abstract excerpt
Intramuscular fat (IMF) content and fatty acid (FA) composition vary significantly across beef cattle breeds, which play an important role in taste and nutritional value. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying these phenotypic differences remain unknown. The present study compared meat quality traits between Yunling cattle and Chinese Simmental cattle. Yunling cattle showed a lower IMF content and...
Topics
- Adipose Tissue
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Fatty Acids
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Meat
- Metabolic Networks and Pathways
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Phenotype
- Transcriptome