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- 1Dr. Heather Bruce (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
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Estimation of genetic and phenotypic parameters for ultrasound and carcass merit traits in crossbred beef cattle
Download2014
Bruce, H. L., Plastow, G. S., Moore, S. S., Wang, Z., Nkrumah, D., Miar, Y., Durunna, O.
Ultrasound measurements of 852 crossbred steers along with carcass merit measurements on 756 of them were used to examine their genetic and phenotypic parameters. Traits including ultrasound backfat thickness (UBF), ultrasound ribeye area (UREA), ultrasound marbling (UMAR), carcass weight (CWT),...
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Exploring Phenotypes for Disease Resilience in Pigs Using Complete Blood Count Data From a Natural Disease Challenge Model
Download2020-01-01
Bai, Xuechun, Putz, Austin M., Wang, Zhiquan, Fortin, Frederic, Harding, John C. S., Dyck, Michael K., Dekkers, Jack C. M., Field, Catherine J., Plastow, Graham S., PigGen Canada
Disease resilience is a valuable trait to help manage infectious diseases in livestock. It is anticipated that improved disease resilience will sustainably increase production efficiency, as resilient animals maintain their performance in the face of infection. The objective of this study was to...
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Genetic parameters for production and feeding behaviour traits in crossbred steers fed a finishing diet at different ages
Download2013
Wang, Z., Nkrumah, D. J., Basarab, J. A., Durunna, O. N., Okine, E. K., Moore, S. S., Mujibi, F. D. N.
Because cattle can be raised postweaning under several feeding regimes, this study examined the consistency of phenotypic and genetic parameters of some production and feeding behaviour traits between two feeding periods that beef cattle received a finisher diet. Crossbred steers (n=851) were...
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Genomic selection for pork quality and carcass traits in both cross- and pure-bred populations
DownloadSpring 2015
Pork quality and carcass characteristics are now being integrated into swine breeding objectives because of their economic value. Understanding the genetic basis for these traits is necessary for this to be accomplished. The main objective of this study was to improve pork quality traits in two...
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Fall 2019
Meat has changed its role from just providing necessary nutrition for the human body to improving the quality of life by giving us eating satisfaction, resulting in the impetus for scientific research on meat quality. Although many strategies have been taken to improve meat quality, unacceptably...
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Relationships between loin physical, meat quality and intramuscular collagen characteristics of carcasses from crossbred swine populations
DownloadSpring 2020
Carcass and meat characteristics are of great importance to the pork industry as they determine the ultimate returns from animals produced. Making genetic progress in these traits requires them to be measurable, heritable and have adequate additive genetic variability. Estimates of genetic...
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The Investigation of Intestinal/Muscle Lipid Metabolism and Meat Quality in Low Birth Weight Swine
DownloadSpring 2023
Metabolic syndrome and obesity-related complications such as insulin resistance (IR), type II diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) have remained a critical worldwide health issue. A previously published study by our group revealed that low birth weight (LBW) piglets exhibited IR and...