Identification of quantitative trait loci affecting carcass composition in swine: I. Fat deposition traits.

doi:10.2527/1998.7692247x

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Identification of quantitative trait loci affecting carcass composition in swine: I. Fat deposition traits.

Journal of animal science - 1 Sept 1998

Rohrer G A, Keele J W

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One of the major determining factors in the price of market hogs today is backfat depth. Therefore, identification of regions of the genome affecting this trait could be very useful to the swine industry. A large resource population (n = 540) was developed by backcrossing F1 Meishan-White composi...

Topics

Adipose Tissue
Alleles
Animals
Body Composition
Breeding
Chromosome Mapping
Female
Genome
Genotype
Male
Meat
Microsatellite Repeats
Quantitative Trait, Heritable
Swine

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