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Factors affecting muscle growth and meat quality in pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

C Rehfeldt
C Rehfeldt*
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Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany
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The understanding of growth and development of skeletal muscle is one of the most important goals in animal and meat science. The major component of a given muscle is the constituent muscle fibres. Muscle mass is therefore largely determined by the number of muscle fibres and the size of those fibres.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2006 , March 2006 , pp. 210
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Copyright © The American Society of International Law 2016

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