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

• 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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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...

Table of Contents:

• Number and Size of Muscle Fibres in Relation to Meat Production / C. Rehfeldt, I. Fiedler and N.C. Stickland
• Fibre Type Identification and Functional Characterization in Adult Livestock Animals / C. Reggiani and F. Mascarello
• Manipulation of Muscle Fibre Number During Prenatal Development / N.C. Stickland, S. Bayol, C. Ashton and C. Rehfeldt
• The Effect of Growth and Exercise on Muscle Characteristics in Relation to Meat Quality / E.G. Dingboom and W.A. Weijs
• Nutrition, Hormone Receptor Expression and Gene Interactions : Implications for Development and Disease / M.J. Dauncey, M. Katsumata and P. White
• The Impact of Minerals and Micronutrients on Growth Control / I. Dørup
• Na+,K+-ATPase in Skeletal Muscle : Significance of Exercise and Thyroid Hormones for Development and Performance / S. Slob, P.H.M. Klaren and M.E. Everts
• Local and Systemic Regulation of Muscle Growth / G. Goldspink
• Proteolytic Systems and the Regulation of Muscle Remodelling and Breakdown / V.T. Los and H.P. Haagsman
• The Muscle Regulatory Factors Gene Family in Relation to Meat Production / P.H.J. Houba and M.F.W. te Pas
• The Muscle Transcriptome / K. Wimmers, S. Ponsuksili and K. Schellander
• Genome Analysis of QTL for Muscle Tissue Development and Meat Quality / M.F. Rothschild, J.P. Bidanel and D.C. Ciobanu
• Functional Genomics and Proteomics in Relation to Muscle Tissue / C. Maltin and G. Plastow
• Role of Myostatin in Muscle Growth / R. Kambadur, A. Bishop, M.S. Salerno, S. McCroskery and M. Sharma
• The Callipyge Mutation for Sheep Muscular Hypertrophy - Genetics, Physiology and Meat Quality / B.A. Freking, T.P.L. Smith and K.A. Leymaster
• Genetic Control of Intramuscular Fat Accretion / F. Gerbens
• Post-mortem Muscle Proteolysis and Meat Tenderness / D.L. Hopkins and R.G. Taylor
• Water-holding Capacity of Meat / K.O. Honikel.