Basic principles of muscle development and growth in meat-producing mammals as affected by the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system

N Oksbjerg, F Gondret, M Vestergaard - Domestic animal endocrinology, 2004 - Elsevier
This presentation aims to describe how the basic events in prenatal muscle development
and postnatal muscle growth are controlled by the insulin-like growth factor system (IGF) …

Sow factors affecting voluntary feed intake during lactation

JJ Eissen, E Kanis, B Kemp - Livestock Production Science, 2000 - Elsevier
Genetic and environmental changes during the last few decades have resulted in higher
milk production and maintenance costs of lactating sows, leading to increased energy …

Genetically caused retarded growth in animals

P Sellier - Domestic Animal Endocrinology, 2000 - Elsevier
Growth process of animals is regulated by a multitude of physiological pathways among
which components of the somatotropic axis play a key role. A number of severe, simply …

Genetics of performance traits.

AC Clutter - The genetics of the pig, 2011 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The genetics of the pig: Genetics of performance traits. Page 1 ©CAB International 2011. The
Genetics of the Pig, 2nd Edn (eds MF Rothschild and A. Ruvinsky) 325 Genetics of Performance …

Selection for growth rate and body size have altered the expression profiles of somatotropic axis genes in chickens

J Jia, I Ahmed, L Liu, Y Liu, Z Xu, X Duan, Q Li, T Dou… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1 (GH/IGF-1) pathway of the somatotropic
axis is the major controller for growth rate and body size in vertebrates, but the effect of …

Identification of quantitative trait loci affecting birth characters and accumulation of backfat and weight in a Meishan-White Composite resource population

GA Rohrer - Journal of Animal Science, 2000 - academic.oup.com
A search for genomic regions affecting birth characters and accretion of weight and backfat
was conducted in a Meishan-White Composite reciprocal backcross resource population …

Serum profile of metabolites and hormones in obese (Iberian) and lean (Landrace) growing gilts fed balanced or lysine deficient diets

I Fernández-Fígares, M Lachica, R Nieto… - Livestock Science, 2007 - Elsevier
Serum hormones and metabolites of lean and obese gilts were determined. Fifteen Iberian
and fifteen Landrace gilts, of approximately 20 kg body weight, were fed isoenergetic (13.6 …

Influence of age and genotype on endocrine parameters and growth performance: a comparative study in Wild boars, Meishan and Large White boars

U Weiler, R Claus, S Schnoebelen-Combes… - Livestock Production …, 1998 - Elsevier
Endocrine parameter and growth performance were monitored in chronically cannulated
male Meishan (MS; n= 11), Large White (LW; n= 12) and European wild boars (WB; n= 11) …

A synonymous mutation in IGF-1 impacts the transcription and translation process of gene expression

SY Wang, YY Cheng, SC Liu, YX Xu, Y Gao… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2021 - cell.com
Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) is considered to be a crucial gene in the animal
development of bone and body size. In this study, a unique synonymous mutation (c. 258 A> …

Relationship of growth hormone and insulin‐like growth factor‐1 genotypes with growth and carcass traits in swine

E Casas‐Carrillo, BW Kirkpatrick… - Animal …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The contribution of chromosomal regions linked to growth hormone (GH) and insulin‐like
growth factor‐1 (IGF‐1) loci to variation in preweaning average daily gain, postweaning …