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Heart size and mean muscle fibre cross-sectional area related to birth weight in pigs
2008
Agricultural and Food Science
One of the aims in domestic pig breeding has been to increase the size of litters resulting in variation in birth weight of piglets. Pig breeding has also resulted in increased body muscle mass. Muscles with the same size can consist either of large number of thin muscle fibres or small number of thick muscle fibres. Larger body muscle content means that in living animal the heart must pump blood to larger muscle mass than earlier. Our interest in this study was to investigate the relationship
doi:10.2137/145960607783328173
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