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Phenotypic and genetic correlations of pork myoglobin content with meat colour and other traits in an eight breed-crossed heterogeneous population.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Nov 2021
Liu Q, Long Y, Zhang Y F, Zhang Z Y, Yang B, Chen C Y, Huang L S, Su Y
Abstract excerpt
Meat colour is one of the most important meat quality traits affecting consumption desire. Genetic improvement for meat colour traits is not so easy because pigs can be phenotyped only after slaughter. Besides the parameters from the optical instrument, other indexes that reflect the material basis of meat colour should be measured accurately and used in the genomic analysis. Myoglobin (Mb) is the main chemical...
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