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Muscle development of livestock animals : physiology, genetics and meat quality /

This book describes the development, growth and adaptation of livestock muscle tissue and contains 18 chapters divided into physiology, genetics and meat quality sections. The physiology section contains chapters on the mechanism of muscle fibre development in the fetus and the importance of high mu...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2004.
Subjects:
Muscles > Physiology.
Meat > Quality.
Livestock > Genetics.
Veterinary physiology.
Meat Producing Animals.
Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000)
Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000)
Animal Nutrition (General)
Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition)
Meat Produce.
Food Composition and Quality.
Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002)
Cattle.
Pigs.
Sheep.
Animal nutrition.
Body fat.
Domestic animals.
Exercise.
Fetal development.
Fetus.
Gene expression.
Genes.
Genetic regulation.
Genetics.
Genome analysis.
Genomes.
Genomics.
Genotype nutrition interaction.
Growth.
Hormone receptors.
Hormones.
Livestock.
Meat.
Meat production.
Meat quality.
Minerals.
Muscle fibres.
Muscle physiology.
Muscle tissue.
Muscles.
Muscular hypertrophy.
Mutations.
Postmortem changes.
Postnatal development.
Poultry.
Proteolysis.
Proteomics.
Quantitative trait loci.
Skeletal muscle.
Tenderness.
Trace elements.
Water holding capacity.
Electronic books.
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