Publications

Anadón HLS (2002). Biological, Nutritional, and Processing Factors Affecting Breast Meat Quality of Broilers. Doctoral thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia.   Brookes AJ (1999). The essence of SNPs. Gene 234: 177-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00219-X   Dransfield E and Sosnicki AA (1999). Relationship between muscle growth and poultry meat quality. Poult. Sci. 78: 743-746. PMid:10228972   Ewing B and Green P (1998). Base-calling of automated sequencer traces using Phred II. Error probabilities. Genome Res. 8: 186-194. PMid:9521922   Falconer DS and Mackay TFC (2001). Introducción a la Genética Cuantitativa. 4ª ed. Acribia, Zaragoza.   Gaya LG, Ferraz JB, Rezende FM, Mourao GB, et al. (2006). Heritability and genetic correlation estimates for performance and carcass and body composition traits in a male broiler line. Poult. Sci. 85: 837-843. PMid:16673760   Gaya LG, Mourão GB, Ferraz JBS, Mattos EC, et al. (2011). Estimates of heritability and genetic correlations for meat quality traits in broilers. Sci. Agric. 68: 620-625. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-90162011000600002   Gordon D, Abajian C and Green P (1998). Consed: a graphical tool for sequence finishing. Genome Res. 8: 195-202. PMid:9521923   Hocquette JF, Lehnert S, Barendse W, Cassar-Malek I, et al. (2007). Recent advances in cattle functional genomics and their application to beef quality. Animal 1: 159-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1751731107658042 PMid:22444219   Kemp CM, Sensky PL, Bardsley RG, Buttery PJ, et al. (2010). Tenderness - an enzymatic view. Meat Sci. 84: 248-256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2009.06.008 PMid:20374783   Koohmaraie M (1996). Biochemical factors regulating the toughening and tenderization processes of meat. Meat Sci. 43S1: 193-201.   Le Bihan-Duval E, Berri C, Baeza E, Sante V, et al. (2003). Genetic parameters of meat technological quality traits in a grand-parental commercial line of turkey. Genet. Sel. Evol. 35: 623-635. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-35-7-623 PMid:14604511 PMCid:2698002   Le Bihan-Duval E, Debut M, Berri CM, Sellier N, et al. (2008). Chicken meat quality: genetic variability and relationship with growth and muscle characteristics. BMC Genet. 9: 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-9-53 PMid:18706119 PMCid:2533670   NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information (2012). Available at [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/]. Accessed March 30, 2012.   Nones K, Ledur MC, Ruy DC, Baron EE, et al. (2006). Mapping QTLs on chicken chromosome 1 for performance and carcass traits in a broiler x layer cross. Anim. Genet. 37: 95-100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2005.01387.x PMid:16573522   Park GB, Moon SS, Ko YD, Ha JK, et al. (2002). Influence of slaughter weight and sex on yield and quality grades of Hanwoo (Korean native cattle) carcasses. J. Anim. Sci. 80: 129-136. PMid:11831510   Poussard S, Duvert M, Balcerzak D, Ramassamy S, et al. (1996). Evidence for implication of muscle-specific calpain (p94) in myofibrillar integrity. Cell Growth Differ. 7: 1461-1469. PMid:8930395   Rosário MF, Ledur MC, Moura ASMT, Coutinho LL, et al. (2009). Genotypic characterization of microsatellite markers in broiler and layer selected chicken lines and their reciprocal F1s. Sci. Agric. 66: 150-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-90162009000200002   SAS (2004). SAS/STATUser's Guide. Version 9.1. SAS Institute, North Caroline.   Sorimachi H, Imajoh-Ohmi S, Emori Y, Kawasaki H, et al. (1989). Molecular cloning of a novel mammalian calcium-dependent protease distinct from both m- and mu-types. Specific expression of the mRNA in skeletal muscle. J. Biol. Chem. 264: 20106-20111. PMid:2555341   Taylor RG, Geesink GH, Thompson VF, Koohmaraie M, et al. (1995). Is Z-disk degradation responsible for postmortem tenderization? J. Anim. Sci. 73: 1351-1367. PMid:7665364   Zhang ZR, Liu YP, Jiang X, Du HR, et al. (2008). Study on association of single nucleotide polymorphism of CAPN1 gene with muscle fibre and carcass traits in quality chicken populations. J. Anim. Breed. Genet. 125: 258-264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0388.2008.00723.x PMid:18727211   Zhang ZR, Liu YP, Yao YG, Jiang XS, et al. (2009). Identification and association of the single nucleotide polymorphisms in calpain3 (CAPN3) gene with carcass traits in chickens. BMC Genet. 10: 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-10-10 PMid:19265533 PMCid:2656522   Zhang ZR, Zhu Q, Yao YG, Jiang XS, et al. (2012). Characterization of the expression profile of calpain-3 (CAPN3) gene in chicken. Mol. Biol. Rep. 39: 3517-3521. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11033-011-1124-4 PMid:21713405

Aigner A, Butscheid M, Kunkel P, Krause E, et al. (2001). An FGF-binding protein (FGF-BP) exerts its biological function by parallel paracrine stimulation of tumor cell and endothelial cell proliferation through FGF-2 release. Int. J. Cancer 92: 510-517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1097-0215(20010515)92:4<510::AID-IJC1227>3.0.CO;2-H   Ambo M, Moura AS, Ledur MC, Pinto LF, et al. (2009). Quantitative trait loci for performance traits in a broiler x layer cross. Anim. Genet. 40: 200-208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2008.01824.x PMid:19170675   Ankra-Badu GA, Shriner D, Le Bihan-Duval E, Mignon-Grasteau S, et al. (2010). Mapping main, epistatic and sex-specific QTL for body composition in a chicken population divergently selected for low or high growth rate. BMC Genomics 11: 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-11-107 PMid:20149241 PMCid:2830984   Anthony NB (1998). A review of genetic practices in poultry: efforts to improve meat quality. J. Muscle Food 9: 25-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-4573.1998.tb00641.x   Barbut S (1997). Occurrence of pale soft exudative meat in mature turkey hens. Br. Poult. Sci. 38: 74-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00071669708417943 PMid:9088616   Baron EE, Moura AS, Ledur MC, Pinto LF, et al. (2010). QTL for percentage of carcass and carcass parts in a broiler x layer cross. Anim. Genet. [Ahead of Print]. PMid:20880336   Beer HD, Bittner M, Niklaus G, Munding C, et al. (2005). The fibroblast growth factor binding protein is a novel interaction partner of FGF-7, FGF-10 and FGF-22 and regulates FGF activity: implications for epithelial repair. Oncogene 24: 5269-5277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1208560 PMid:15806171   Berri C, Le Bihan-Duval E, Debut M, Sante-Lhoutellier V, et al. (2007). Consequence of muscle hypertrophy on characteristics of Pectoralis major muscle and breast meat quality of broiler chickens. J. Anim. Sci. 85: 2005-2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2527/jas.2006-398 PMid:17431054   Dekkers JC (2004). Commercial application of marker- and gene-assisted selection in livestock: strategies and lessons. J. Anim. Sci. 82 (E-Suppl): E313-E328.   Dransfield E and Sosnicki AA (1999). Relationship between muscle growth and poultry meat quality. Poult. Sci. 78: 743-746. PMid:10228972   Ewing B and Green P (1998). Base-calling of automated sequencer traces using Phred. II. Error probabilities. Genome Res. 8: 186-194. PMid:9521922   Falconer DS and Mackay TFC (2001). Introducción a la Genética Cuantitativa. 4ª ed. Acribia, Zaragoza.   Gaya LG, Ferraz JB, Rezende FM, Mourao GB, et al. (2006). Heritability and genetic correlation estimates for performance and carcass and body composition traits in a male broiler line. Poult. Sci. 85: 837-843. PMid:16673760   Gaya LG, Mourão GB, Ferraz JBS, Mattos EC, et al. (2011). Estimates of heritability and genetic correlations for meat quality traits in broilers. Sci. Agric. 68: 620-625. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-90162011000600002   Gibby KA, McDonnell K, Schmidt MO and Wellstein A (2009). A distinct role for secreted fibroblast growth factor-binding proteins in development. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 106: 8585-8590. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0810952106 PMid:19433791 PMCid:2689014   Gordon D, Abajian C and Green P (1998). Consed: a graphical tool for sequence finishing. Genome Res. 8: 195-202. PMid:9521923   Kastner S, Elias MC, Rivera AJ and Yablonka-Reuveni Z (2000). Gene expression patterns of the fibroblast growth factors and their receptors during myogenesis of rat satellite cells. J. Histochem. Cytochem. 48: 1079-1096. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002215540004800805 PMid:10898801   Le Bihan-Duval E, Berri C, Baeza E, Sante V, et al. (2003). Genetic parameters of meat technological quality traits in a grand-parental commercial line of turkey. Genet. Sel. Evol. 35: 623-635. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-35-7-623 PMid:14604511 PMCid:2698002   Le Bihan-Duval E, Debut M, Berri CM, Sellier N, et al. (2008). Chicken meat quality: genetic variability and relationship with growth and muscle characteristics. BMC Genet. 9: 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-9-53 PMid:18706119 PMCid:2533670   Marie PJ, Debiais F and Hay E (2002). Regulation of human cranial osteoblast phenotype by FGF-2, FGFR-2 and BMP-2 signaling. Histol. Histopathol. 17: 877-885. PMid:12168799   Nassar MK, Goraga ZS and Brockmann GA (2012). Quantitative trait loci segregating in crosses between New Hampshire and White Leghorn chicken lines: II. Muscle weight and carcass composition. Anim. Genet. [Ahead of Print].   Nones K, Ledur MC, Zanella EL, Klein C, et al. (2012). Quantitative trait loci associated with chemical composition of the chicken carcass. Anim. Genet. 43: 570-576. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2012.02321.x PMid:22497237   Park GB, Moon SS, Ko YD, Ha JK, et al. (2002). Influence of slaughter weight and sex on yield and quality grades of Hanwoo (Korean native cattle) carcasses. J. Anim. Sci. 80: 129-136. PMid:11831510   Rosário MF, Ledur MC, Moura ASAMT, Coutinho LL, et al. (2009). Genotypic characterization of microsatellite markers in broiler and layer selected chicken lines and their reciprocal F1s. Sci. Agric. 66: 150-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-90162009000200002   SAS (2004). SAS/STAT User's Guide: Version 9.1. SAS Institute, Cary.   Schmid M, Nanda I, Hoehn H, Schartl M, et al. (2005). Second report on chicken genes and chromosomes. Cytogenet. Genome Res. 109: 415-479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000084205 PMid:15905640   Stephens M, Smith NJ and Donnelly P (2001). A new statistical method for haplotype reconstruction from population data. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 68: 978-989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/319501 PMid:11254454 PMCid:1275651   Tassi E, Al-Attar A, Aigner A, Swift MR, et al. (2001). Enhancement of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) activity by an FGF-binding protein. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 40247-40253. PMid:11509569   Voorrips RE (2002). MapChart Software for the graphical presentation of linkage maps and QTLs. J. Heredity 93: 77-78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhered/93.1.77 PMid:12011185   Wu DQ, Kan MK, Sato GH, Okamoto T, et al. (1991). Characterization and molecular cloning of a putative binding protein for heparin-binding growth factors. J. Biol. Chem. 266: 16778-16785. PMid:1885605   Yang A, Emmerson DA, Dunnington EA and Siegel PB (1999). Heterosis and developmental stability of body and organ weights at hatch for parental line broiler breeders and specific crosses among them. Poult. Sci. 78: 942-948. PMid:10404673