Fatness traits are important in pig production since they influence meat quality and fattening
efficiency. On the other hand, excessive fat accumulation in humans has become a serious …

Residual feed intake (RFI) has become increasingly important and is being considered as a
more reasonable approach to evaluate feed efficiency in livestock. However, the cost and …

We recently showed that a polymorphism in the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene
(AM931150: g. 276T> G) is associated with fat deposition traits in pigs. To confirm this result …

Cathepsin K (CTSK) was selected as a candidate gene for fat deposition in pigs because
recently, in human and mouse, it was shown that this lysosomal proteinase is an obesity …

The significance of hepatocyte nuclear factors (HNFs) in β-cell development and function
has been generally recognized in humans, as evidenced by their associations with cases of …

TRIB3 plays an important role in energy metabolism. This work aimed to study the porcine
tribbles homolog 3 (TRIB3) gene and to evaluate its association with meat quality and …

The fat mass and obesity-associated gene (FTO) has previously been associated with
human body mass index and porcine intramuscular fat content. In this study, the potential …

Speciation models relying on geographic barriers to limit gene flow gather widespread
consensus, but are insufficient to explain diversification in highly mobile marine organisms …

As a newly described member of the apolipoprotein gene family, apolipoprotein A5 (APOA5)
has been suggested to play a key role in the triglyceride metabolism in both human and …

We identified, combining different approaches (sequencing, literature mining, and in silico
porcine expressed sequence tag mining), a few hundreds of single nucleotide …