(Ebook) Muscle Development of Livestock Animals: Physiology, Genetics and Meat Quality by te Pas, Marinus F W, Haagsman, Henk P, Everts, Maria E ISBN 9780851998114, 0851998119

(Ebook) Muscle Development of Livestock Animals: Physiology, Genetics and Meat Quality by te Pas, Marinus F W, Haagsman, Henk P, Everts, Maria E ISBN 9780851998114, 0851998119

Number and size of muscle fibres in relation to meat production. Fibre type identification and functional characterization in adult livestock animals. Manipulation of muscle fibre number during prenatal development. The effect of growth and exercise on muscle characteristics in relation to meat quality. Nutrition, hormone receptor expression and gene interactions: implications for development and disease. The impact of minerals and micronutrients on growth control. Na+ K+-ATPase in skeletal muscle: significance of exercise and thyroid hormones for development and performance. local and ystemic regulation of muscle growth. Proteolytic systems and the regulation of muscle remodelling and breakdown. Themuscle regulatory factors gene family in relation to meat production.The muscle transcriptome. Genome analysis of QTL for muscle tissue development and meat quality. Functional genomics and proteomics in relation to muscle tissue. Role of myostatin in muscle growth. The callipyge mutation for sheep muscular hypertrophy genetics, physiology and meat quality. Genetic control of intramuscular fat accretion, Post-mortem muscle proteolysis and meat tenderness.Water-holding capacity of meat.