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Analysis of merged whole blood transcriptomic datasets to identify circulating molecular biomarkers of feed efficiency in growing pigs.
BMC genomics - 3 Jul 2021
Messad Farouk, Louveau Isabelle, Renaudeau David, Gilbert Hélène, Gondret Florence
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BACKGROUND: Improving feed efficiency (FE) is an important goal due to its economic and environmental significance for farm animal production. The FE phenotype is complex and based on the measurements of the individual feed consumption and average daily gain during a test period, which is costly and time-consuming. The identification of reliable predictors of FE is a strategy to reduce phenotyping efforts....
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