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Identification of a second gene associated with variation in vertebral number in domestic pigs
BACKGROUND: The number of vertebrae in pigs varies and is associated with body size. Wild boars have 19 vertebrae, but European commercial breeds for pork production have 20 to 23 vertebrae. We previously identified two quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for number of vertebrae on Sus scrofa chromosomes...
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BioMed Central
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21232157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-5 |