Younes Miar

Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

[ 1 ] - Application of myostatin in sheep breeding programs: A review

Myostatin or growth and differentiation factor 8 (GDF8), has been known as the factor causing double muscling phenotypes in which a series of mutations make the myostatin protein inactive, hence disabling it to regulate the deposition of muscle fibre. This phenotype happens with high frequency in a breed of sheep known as the Texel. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) studies show that a portion of t...

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