Abstract:The wild boar and modern highly selected pigs are phenotypically distant European pig breeds reared in contrasting conditions and present ideal model to better understand the mechanisms behind meat quality deterioration related to domestication and selection pressure, which provoked substantial modifications in the ontogenic development as well as contractile and metabolic properties of skeletal muscles. The skeletal muscle of domestic pigs are less mature at birth and contains a lower number of myofibres comp… Show more
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