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Muscle development of livestock animals : physiology, genetics, and meat quality / edited by M.F.W. te Pas, M.E. Everts, and H.P. Haagsman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Veterinary physiology.
- Muscles--Physiology.
- Muscles.
- Livestock--Genetics.
- Livestock.
- Meat--Quality.
- Meat.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (428 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass., USA ; Wallingfrod, Oxon, UK : CABI Pub., c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Well-developed and functional muscle tissues are a prerequisite for healthy meat-producing animals. Good muscle development leads to improved meat quality. Hence modern breeds of livestock animal have been selectively bred for better conformation, increased muscle size and increased muscle-to-bone ratio. This book describes all aspects of muscle development research, and contains contributions from leading research groups around the world.
- Contents:
- Contributors; Preface; 1 Number and Size of Muscle Fibres in Relation to Meat Production; 2 Fibre Type Identification and Functional Characterization in Adult Livestock Animals; 3 Manipulation of Muscle Fibre Number During Prenatal Development; 4 The Effect of Growth and Exercise on Muscle Characteristics in Relation to Meat Quality; 5 Nutrition, Hormone Receptor Expression and Gene Interactions: Implications for Development and Disease; 6 The Impact of Minerals and Micronutrients on Growth Control
- 7 Na+,K+-ATPase in Skeletal Muscle: Significance of Exercise and Thyroid Hormones for Development and Performance; 8 Local and Systemic Regulation of Muscle Growth; 9 Proteolytic Systems and the Regulation of Muscle Remodelling and Breakdown; 10 The Muscle Regulatory Factors Gene Family in Relation to Meat Production; 11 The Muscle Transcriptome; 12 Genome Analysis of QTL for Muscle Tissue Development and Meat Quality; 13 Functional Genomics and Proteomics in Relation to Muscle Tissue; 14 Role of Myostatin in Muscle Growth
- 15 The Callipyge Mutation for Sheep Muscular Hypertrophy - Genetics, Physiology and Meat Quality; 16 Genetic Control of Intramuscular Fat Accretion; 17 Post-mortem Muscle Proteolysis and Meat Tenderness; 18 Water-holding Capacity of Meat; Perspectives; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86635-7
- 9786610866359
- 0-85199-041-X
- OCLC:
- 476072210
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