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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
31
Citations
2930
World Ranking
2353
National Ranking
62

Best Publications

  • Genetic correlation of fatty acid composition with growth, carcass, fat deposition and meat quality traits based on GWAS data in six pig populations

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  • A Splice Mutation in the PHKG1 Gene Causes High Glycogen Content and Low Meat Quality in Pig Skeletal Muscle

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  • A comprehensive survey of copy number variation in 18 diverse pig populations and identification of candidate copy number variable genes associated with complex traits

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  • A global view of porcine transcriptome in three tissues from a full-sib pair with extreme phenotypes in growth and fat deposition by paired-end RNA sequencing

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  • A large-scale comparison of meat quality and intramuscular fatty acid composition among three Chinese indigenous pig breeds

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  • Genome-wide association analyses reveal significant loci and strong candidate genes for growth and fatness traits in two pig populations.

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  • Genome-wide association analyses for meat quality traits in Chinese Erhualian pigs and a Western Duroc × (Landrace × Yorkshire) commercial population

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  • Genome-wide identification of quantitative trait loci for carcass composition and meat quality in a large-scale White Duroc × Chinese Erhualian resource population

    J. Ma;J. Ren;Y. Guo;Y. Duan

  • Genome-wide detection of genetic markers associated with growth and fatness in four pig populations using four approaches

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  • Genome-Wide Association Study of Meat Quality Traits in a White Duroc×Erhualian F2 Intercross and Chinese Sutai Pigs

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  • A whole-genome sequence based association study on pork eating quality traits and cooking loss in a specially designed heterogeneous F6 pig population

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  • Maternal infanticide in sows: Incidence and behavioural comparisons between savaging and non-savaging sows at parturition

    Congying Chen;Colin L. Gilbert;Guangcheng Yang;Yuanmei Guo

  • Genome-Wide Association Analyses for Fatty Acid Composition in Porcine Muscle and Abdominal Fat Tissues

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  • Genetic architecture of fatty acid composition in the longissimus dorsi muscle revealed by genome-wide association studies on diverse pig populations.

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  • Genome-wide identification of quantitative trait loci for pork temperature, pH decline, and glycolytic potential in a large-scale White Duroc x Chinese Erhualian resource population.

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  • Genome-wide QTL mapping for three traits related to teat number in a White Duroc × Erhualian pig resource population

    Nengshui Ding;Nengshui Ding;Yuanmei Guo;Christoph Knorr;Junwu Ma

  • Subcutaneous and intramuscular fat transcriptomes show large differences in network organization and associations with adipose traits in pigs

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  • Genome-wide association analysis reveals genetic loci and candidate genes for meat quality traits in Chinese Laiwu pigs.

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  • Genome-wide association studies for fatty acid metabolic traits in five divergent pig populations.

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  • Chinese White Rongchang Pig Does Not Have the Dominant White Allele of KIT but Has the Dominant Black Allele of MC1R

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