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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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| 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 |