Effects of season and antler growth on carcass traits and meat quality in wild male red deer harvested by selective stalking

• Martina Pérez Serrano,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy Production, Higher Technical School of Agronomy, Food and Biosystems Engineering, UPM, Madrid, Spain

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• José Manuel Lorenzo,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Galician Meat Technology Centre, Galician Technology Park, Ourense, Spain, Food Technology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain

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• Roberto Bermúdez,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Galician Meat Technology Centre, Galician Technology Park, Ourense, Spain

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• Laura Purriños,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Galician Meat Technology Centre, Galician Technology Park, Ourense, Spain

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• Yolanda Fierro,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation La Morera Game Estate, Abenójar, Spain

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• Andrés José García,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Institute for Game Resources (IREC-CSIC-JCCM), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, Game and Livestock Resources Section, Regional Development Institute (IDR), Castilla-La Mancha University, Albacete, Spain, Institute for Health Research of Castilla-La Mancha (IDISCAM), Albacete, Spain

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• Datao Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, China

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• Nicolás Alegría-Aravena,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Game and Livestock Resources Section, Regional Development Institute (IDR), Castilla-La Mancha University, Albacete, Spain, Institute for Health Research of Castilla-La Mancha (IDISCAM), Albacete, Spain, Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC)-Scientific Foundation AECC, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5708-997X

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• Louis Chonco ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Research Institute for Game Resources (IREC-CSIC-JCCM), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, Game and Livestock Resources Section, Regional Development Institute (IDR), Castilla-La Mancha University, Albacete, Spain, Institute for Health Research of Castilla-La Mancha (IDISCAM), Albacete, Spain

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• Tomás Landete-Castillejos

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Tomas.Landete@uclm.es

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Research Institute for Game Resources (IREC-CSIC-JCCM), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, Game and Livestock Resources Section, Regional Development Institute (IDR), Castilla-La Mancha University, Albacete, Spain, Institute for Health Research of Castilla-La Mancha (IDISCAM), Albacete, Spain

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