Gene Effects on Body Weight, Carcass Yield, and Meat Quality of Thai Indigenous Chicken.

ABSTRACT: The selection of rapidly growing animals in breeding programs has had inadvertent detrimental effects on meat quality. Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between body weight (BW) and meat quality traits, and the effects of genes encoding insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II), melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R), and calpain 1 (CAPN1) on BW, carcass yield, and meat quality of the Thai indigenous chicken, Leung Hang Khao. Five hundred and ten chickens were used for genotyping. PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism and PCR-single strand conformation polymorphism were used to determine the genotypes of IGF-I, IGF-II, MC4R, and CAPN1. BWs were collected from 0-16 weeks of age. The chickens were sacrificed at 16 weeks a

SUBMITTER: Molee A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6756488 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature