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Short communication: Erythrocytes assayed early ante-mortem can predict adipose tissue and muscle trans-18:1 isomeric profiles of steers fed red clover silage supplemented with flaxseed
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Aalhus, J. L., Rolland, D. C., M. E. R. Dugan, Baron, V. S., Mapiye, C., Basarab, J. A., Turner, T. D., Block, H. C., McAllister, T. A., Uttaro, B.
Steers were fed a red clover silage-based diet with or without flaxseed to evaluate over time the effects of flaxseed supplementation on erythrocytes (ERC) trans(t)18:1 isomers composition and their relationships to adipose tissue and muscle t18:1 profiles at slaughter. Concentrations of most ERC...
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2014
Aalhus, J. L., Basarab, J. A., Juárez, M., Larsen, I. L., Rymer, R. T.
Steaks from longissimus lumborum and semimembranosus muscles, aged 2 or 27 d, were obtained from a population of steers (n=112) managed to produce a range in tenderness (shear force range from 2.57 to 17.2 kg). All available carcass (live weight, hot commercial weight, pH, temperature, marbling,...
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms for feed efficiency and performance in crossbred beef cattle
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Squires, J. J., Moore, S., Stothard, P., Swanson, K. C., Miller, S. P., Abo-Ismail, M. K., Vander Voort, G., Liao, X., Plastow, G., Mandell, I. B.
Background This study was conducted to: (1) identify new SNPs for residual feed intake (RFI) and performance traits within candidate genes identified in a genome wide association study (GWAS); (2) estimate the proportion of variation in RFI explained by the detected SNPs; (3) estimate the...
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Subcutaneous fatty acid composition of steers finished as weanlings or yearlings with and without growth promotants
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Baron, V. S., Aalhus, J. L., Turner, T. D., Dugan, M. E. R., Mapiye, C., Basarab, J. A.
Background The current study evaluated the subcutaneous fatty acid (FA) composition of calf- and yearling-fed steers with or without growth promoting implants. Crossbred steers (n = 112; 267 ± 5.0 kg) of the same contemporary group were allocated to one of four production system and implant...
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Swath grazing triticale and corn compared to barley and a traditional winter feeding method in central Alberta, Can
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Doce, R. R., Dick, C., Baron, V. S., Basarab, J. A.
A 5-yr study compared swath-grazed triticale (× Triticosecale Wittmack), corn (Zea mays L.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) with a traditional pen-fed, wintering diet for gestating beef cows on the basis of dry matter (DM) yield, carrying capacity, nutritive value, cow performance and total daily...
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2011
Nalaila, S., Li, C., Moore, S. S., Stothard, P., Wang, Z.
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapped to large chromosomal regions have limited utility as DNA markers for marker-assisted selection (MAS) and are less informative as a reference for the identification of the underlying causative quantitative trait nucleotides (QTN). The objective of this study...