Publications

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The influence of muscle fibre area on pork quality. Vet. Ir Zootec. T. 42: 34-37.   Gispert M, Font IF, Gil M, Velarde A, et al. (2007). Relationships between carcass quality parameters and genetic types. Meat Sci. 77: 397-404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2007.04.006 PMid:22061793   Jiang YZ and Li XW (2012). The status and outlook of the pig production market in the world. Chin. J. Anim. Sci. 48: 22-27.   Jiang YZ, Zhu L, Li XW and Si T (2011). Evaluation of the Chinese indigenous pig breed Dahe and crossbred Dawu for growth and carcass characteristics, organ weight, meat quality and intramuscular fatty acid and amino acid composition. Animal 5: 1485-1492. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1751731111000425 PMid:22440295   Jiang YZ, Zhu L, Li FQ and Li XW (2012). Carcass composition and meat quality of indigenous Yanan pigs of China. Genet. Mol. Res. 11: 166-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.4238/2012.January.27.3 PMid:22370883   Jones GF (1998). Genetic Aspects of Comestication, Common Breeds and Their Origin. In: The Genetics of the Pig (Rothschild MF and Ruvinsky A, eds.). CAB International, Wallingford, 38-45.   Klosowska D and Fiedler I (2003). Muscle fibre types in pigs of different genotypes in relation to meat quality. Anim. Sci. 21 (Suppl 1): 49-60.   Lan YH, McKeith FK, Novakofski J and Carr TR (1993). Carcass and muscle characteristics of Yorkshire, Meishan, Yorkshire x Meishan, Meishan x Yorkshire, Fengjing x Yorkshire, and Minzhu x Yorkshire pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 71: 3344-3349. PMid:8294286   Latorre MA, Lázaro R, Gracia MI, Nieto M, et al. (2003a). Effect of sex and terminal sire genotype on performance, carcass characteristics, and meat quality of pigs slaughtered at 117 kg body weight. Meat Sci. 65: 1369-1377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0309-1740(03)00059-7   Latorre MA, Medel P, Fuentetaja A, Lázaro R, et al. (2003b). Effect of gender, terminal sire line and age at slaughter on performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality of heavy pigs. Anim. Sci. 77: 33-45.   Latorre MA, Pomar C, Faucitano L, Gariépy C, et al. (2008). The relationship within and between production performance and meat quality characteristics in pigs from three different genetic lines. Livest. Sci. 115: 258-267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2007.08.013   Lawrie RA (2005). Ciência da Carne. 6ª ed. Artmed, Porto Alegre.   Legault C, Sellier P, Caritez JC, Dando P, et al. (1985). L'expérimentation sur le porc chinois en France. II: Performances de production en croisement avec les races européennes. Genet. Sel. Evol. 17: 133-152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-17-1-133 PMid:22879190 PMCid:2713914   Miao ZG, Wang LJ, Xu ZR, Huang JF, et al. (2009). Developmental changes of carcass composition, meat quality and organs in the Jinhua pig and Landrace. Animal 3: 468-473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1751731108003613 PMid:22444318   Newcom DW, Stalder KJ, Baas TJ, Goodwin RN, et al. (2004). Breed differences and genetic parameters of myoglobin concentration in porcine longissimus muscle. J. Anim. Sci. 82: 2264-2268. PMid:15318723   NPPC (2000). Pork Composition and Quality Assessment Procedures. 1st edn. National Pork Producers Council, Des Moines.   Oliver MA, Gou P, Gispert M and Diestre A (1994). Comparison of five types of pig crosses II. Fresh meat quality and sensory characteristics of dry cured ham. Livest. Prod. Sci. 40: 179-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0301-6226(94)90047-7   Schäfer A, Rosenvold K, Purslow PP, Andersen HJ, et al. (2002). Physiological and structural events post mortem of importance for drip loss in pork. Meat Sci. 61: 355-366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0309-1740(01)00205-4   Sellier P (1998). Genetics of Meat and Carcass Traits. In: The Genetics of the Pig (Rothschild MF and Ruvinsky A, eds.). CAB International, Wallingford, 38-45.   van der Wal PG, de Vries AG and Eikelenboom G (1995). Predictive value of slaughterhouse measurements of ultimate pork quality in seven halothane negative Yorkshire populations. Meat Sci. 40: 183-191. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0309-1740(94)00028-X   van Laack RL, Kauffman RG, Sybesma W, Smulders FJ, et al. (1994). Is colour brightness (L-value) a reliable indicator of water-holding capacity in porcine muscle? Meat Sci. 38: 193-201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0309-1740(94)90109-0   Verónica A, María del Mar C, Sonia E, Pedro R, et al. (2009). Effect of crossbreeding and gender on meat quality and fatty acid composition in pork. Meat Sci. 81: 209-217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2008.07.021 PMid:22063984   Wood JD, Enser M, Moncrieff CB and Kempster AJ (1988). Effects of Carcass Fatness and Sex on the Composition and Quality of Pigmeat. Proceedings of 34th International Congress of Meat Science and Technology, Brisbane, 562-564. PMid:3373174   Xiao R-J, Xu Z-R and Chen H-L (1999). Effects of ractopamine at different dietary protein levels on growth performance and carcass characteristics in finishing pigs. Anim. Feed Sci. Technol. 79: 119-127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0377-8401(98)00282-X   Young LD (1992). Effects of Duroc, Meishan, Fengjing, and Minzhu boars on carcass traits of first-cross barrows. J. Anim. Sci. 70: 2030-2037. PMid:1644675   Young LD (1995). Survival, body weights, feed efficiency, and carcass traits of 3/4 white composite and 1/4 Duroc, 1/4 Meishan, 1/4 Fengjing, or 1/4 Minzhu pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 73: 3534-3542. PMid:8655426   Young LD (1998). Survival, body weights, feed efficiency, and carcass traits of 7/8 White Composite and 1/8 Duroc, 1/8 Meishan, 1/8 Fengjing, or 1/8 Minzhu pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 76: 1550-1558. PMid:9655574

Anderson JA, Churchill GA, Autrique JE, Tanksley SD, et al. (1993). Optimizing parental selection for genetic linkage maps. Genome 36: 181-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/g93-024 PMid:18469981 Dellaporta SL, Wood J and Hicks JB (1983). A plant DNA minipreparation: version II. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 1: 19-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02712670 Duvick DN (2005). The contribution of breeding to yield advances in maize (Zea mays L.). Adv. Agron. 86: 83-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2113(05)86002-X Feng ZY, Liu XJ, Zhang YZ and Ling HQ (2006). Genetic diversity analysis of Tibetan wild barley using SSR markers. Yi. Chuan Xue. Bao. 33: 917-928. PMid:17046592 Fernández M, Figueiras A and Benito C (2002). The use of ISSR and RAPD markers for detecting DNA polymorphism, genotype identification and genetic diversity among barley cultivars with known origin. Theor. Appl. Genet. 104: 845-851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-001-0848-2 PMid:12582645 Graner A, Ludwig WF and Melchinger AE (1994). Relationships among European barley germplasm: II. Comparison of RFLP and pedigree data. Crop Sci. 34: 1199-1205. http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci1994.0011183X003400050010x Hayes PM, Castro A, Marquez-Cedillo L, Corey A et al. (2002). Genetic Diversity for Quantitatively Inherited Agronomic and Malting Quality Traits. In: Diversity Barley (Von Bothmer R, Knupfeer H, van Hintum T and Sato K, eds.). Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam. Mikel MA and Kolb FL (2008). Genetic diversity of contemporary North American barley. Crop Sci. 48: 1399-1407. http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2008.01.0029 Matus IA and Hayes PM (2002). Genetic diversity in three groups of barley germplasm assessed by simple sequence repeats. Genome 45: 1095-1106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/g02-071 PMid:12502254 Meszaros K, Karsai I, Kuti C, Banyai J, et al. (2007). Efficiency of different marker systems for genotype fingerprinting and for genetic diversity studies in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). S. Afr. J. Bot. 73: 43-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2006.06.006 Nandakumar N, Singh AK, Sharma RK, Mohapatra T, et al. (2004). Molecular fingerprinting of hybrids and assessment of genetic purity of hybrid seeds in rice using microsatellite markers. Euphytica 136: 257-264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:EUPH.0000032706.92360.c6 Prevost A and Wilkinson MJ (1999). A new system of comparing PCR primers applied to ISSR fingerprinting of potato cultivars. Theor. Appl. Genet. 98: 107-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001220051046 Reif JC, Melchinger AE, Xia XC, Warburton ML, et al. (2003). Genetic distance based on simple sequence repeats and heterosis in tropical maize populations. Crop Sci. 43: 1275-1282. http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2003.1275 Rohlf FJ (2002). NTSYS-pc. Numerical Taxonomy and Multivariate Analysis System, Version 2.10. Exeter Software, New York. Saghai Maroof MA, Biyashev RM, Yang GP, Zhang Q, et al. (1994). Extraordinarily polymorphic microsatellite DNA in barley: species diversity, chromosomal locations, and population dynamics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 91: 5466-5470. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.91.12.5466 Sanguinetti CJ, Dias NE and Simpson AJ (1994). Rapid silver staining and recovery of PCR products separated on polyacrylamide gels. Biotechniques 17: 914-921. PMid:7840973 Sneath PHA and Sokal RR (1973). Numerical Taxonomy. The Principles and Practice of Numerical Classification. W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco. Struss D and Plieske J (1998). The use of microsatellite markers for detection of genetic diversity in barley populations. Theor. Appl. Genet. 97: 308-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001220050900 Turuspekov Y, Nakamura K, Yoshikawa R and Tuberosa R (2001). Genetic diversity of Japanese barley cultivars based on SSR analysis. Breed. Sci. 51: 215-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1270/jsbbs.51.215 Yao Q, Yang K, Pan G and Rong T (2007). Genetic diversity of maize (Zea mays L.) landraces from southwest China based on SSR data. J. Genet. Genomics 34: 851-859. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1673-8527(07)60096-4 Zhang D and Ding Y (2007). Genetic diversity of wild close relatives of barley in Tibet of China revealed by AFLP. Yi. Chuan 29: 725-730. http://dx.doi.org/10.1360/yc-007-0725 PMid:17650490 Zhang DL, Gao HY and Li SP (2007). Analysis of genetic diversity on beer barley varieties in China by SSR. Acta Agr. Boreali-Occidentalis Sin. 16: 72-76.