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Leonardo Nanni Costa

Leonardo Nanni Costa

D-Index & Metrics

Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
30
Citations
2653
World Ranking
2516
National Ranking
126

Best Publications

  • Combined effects of pre-slaughter treatments and lairage time on carcass and meat quality in pigs of different halothane genotype

    L Nanni Costa;D.P Lo Fiego;S Dall'Olio;R Davoli

  • Analysis of horse myostatin gene and identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms in breeds of different morphological types.

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  • Gel‐based phosphoproteomics analysis of sarcoplasmic proteins in postmortem porcine muscle with pH decline rate and time differences

    Honggang Huang;Martin Røssel Larsen;Anders H Karlsson;Luigi Pomponio

  • An analysis of data relating to pig carcass quality and indices of stress collected in the European union.

    P.D. Warriss;S.N. Brown;P.Barton Gade;C. Santos

  • Investigation on CAST, CAPN1 and CAPN3 porcine gene polymorphisms and expression in relation to post-mortem calpain activity in muscle and meat quality

    G. Gandolfi;L. Pomponio;P. Ertbjerg;A.H. Karlsson

  • Single nucleotide polymorphisms in several porcine cathepsin genes are associated with growth, carcass, and production traits in Italian Large White pigs.

    V. Russo;L. Fontanesi;E. Scotti;F. Beretti

  • Analysis of raw meat to predict proteolysis in Parma ham.

    C Schivazappa;M Degni;L Nanni Costa;V Russo

  • Comparative evaluation of genomic inbreeding parameters in seven commercial and autochthonous pig breeds

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  • Study of candidate genes for glycolytic potential of porcine skeletal muscle: identification and analysis of mutations, linkage and physical mapping and association with meat quality traits in pigs

    L. Fontanesi;R. Davoli;L. Nanni Costa;E. Scotti

  • The insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) gene intron3-g.3072G>A polymorphism is not the only Sus scrofa chromosome 2p mutation affecting meat production and carcass traits in pigs: evidence from the effects of a cathepsin D (CTSD) gene polymorphism.

    L. Fontanesi;C. Speroni;L. Buttazzoni;E. Scotti

  • Investigation of candidate genes for meat quality in dry-cured ham production: the porcine cathepsin B (CTSB) and cystatin B (CSTB) genes.

    V. Russo;L. Fontanesi;R. Davoli;L. Nanni Costa

  • Investigation of candidate genes for glycolytic potential of porcine skeletal muscle: Association with meat quality and production traits in Italian Large White pigs.

    L. Fontanesi;R. Davoli;L. Nanni Costa;F. Beretti

  • Influence of loading method and stocking density during transport on meat and dry-cured ham quality in pigs with different halothane genotypes

    L Nanni Costa;D.P Lo Fiego;S Dall’Olio;R Davoli

  • The Relationship Between Carcass Bruising in Bulls and Behaviour Observed During Pre-slaughter Phases

    L. Nanni Costa;D. P. Lo Fiego;F. Tassone;V. Russo

  • Evidence for post-mortem m-calpain autolysis in porcine muscle.

    Luigi Pomponio;René Lametsch;Anders H. Karlsson;Leonardo Nanni Costa

  • Influence of early pH decline on calpain activity in porcine muscle.

    Luigi Pomponio;Per Ertbjerg;Anders H. Karlsson;Leonardo Nanni Costa

  • Thermography : current status and advances in livestock animals and in veterinary medicine

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  • A machine learning approach for the identification of population-informative markers from high-throughput genotyping data: application to several pig breeds

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  • The effects of different environmental conditions on thermoregulation and clinical and hematological variables in long-distance road-transported calves1

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  • Metabolomics characterization of colostrum in three sow breeds and its influences on piglets’ survival and litter growth rates

    Gianfranco Picone;Martina Zappaterra;Diana Luise;Alessia Trimigno

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