Genetic and Phenotypic Correlations between Performance Traits with Meat Quality and Carcass Characteristics in Commercial Crossbred Pigs

• Younes Miar,

  Affiliation Livestock Gentec Centre, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Graham Plastow,

  Affiliation Livestock Gentec Centre, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Heather Bruce,

  Affiliation Livestock Gentec Centre, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Stephen Moore,

  Affiliations Livestock Gentec Centre, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Centre for Animal Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

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• Ghader Manafiazar,

  Affiliation Livestock Gentec Centre, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Robert Kemp,

  Affiliation Genesus Genetics, Oakville, Manitoba, Canada

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• Patrick Charagu,

  Affiliation Hypor Inc., Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Abe Huisman,

  Affiliation Research and Technology Centre, Hendrix Genetics, Boxmeer, The Netherlands

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• Benny van Haandel,

  Affiliation Hypor Inc., Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Chunyan Zhang,

  Affiliation Livestock Gentec Centre, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Robert McKay,

  Affiliation McKay GENSTAT Consultants Inc., Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

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• Zhiquan Wang

  * E-mail: Zhiquan@ualberta.ca

  Affiliation Livestock Gentec Centre, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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