The distal end of porcine chromosome 6p is involved in the regulation of skatole levels in boars

BACKGROUND: Boar taint is an unpleasant condition of pork, mainly due to the accumulation of androstenone and skatole in male pigs at onset of puberty. This condition is the cause of considerable economic losses in the pig industry and the most common practice to control it is to castrate male pigle...

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Autores principales: Ramos, António M, Duijvesteijn, Naomi, Knol, Egbert F, Merks, Jan WM, Bovenhuis, Henk, Crooijmans, Richard PMA, Groenen, Martien AM, Harlizius, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21507230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-35

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21507230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-35

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