The lipid characteristics of the intramuscular fat (IMF) from skeletal muscles of different
beaver carcass parts (the loin, hind leg and shoulder) were characterised in detail for the …

Summary The North American beaver is an exceptionally long-lived and cancer-resistant
rodent species. Here, we report the evolutionary changes in its gene coding sequences …

Semi‐aquatic mammals have secondarily returned to the aquatic environment, although
they spend a major part of their life operating in air. Moving both on land, as well as in, and …

There is a high interest on the part of consumers to obtain meat from animals which have
been reared as close to natural conditions as possible. Game meat, characterised by high …

Razmaitė V., Šveistienė R., Švirmickas GJ (2011): Compositional characteristics and
nutritional quality of Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) meat. Czech J. Food Sci., 29: 480–486 …

We examined the effect of different dietary supplements on seasonal changes in body mass
(mb), metabolic rate (MR) and nonshivering thermogenesis (NST) capacity in normothermic …

Three monogastric domestic and wild animal species: farmed Lithuanian indigenous wattle
pigs (Sus scrofa domestica), wild boars (Sus scrofa) and beavers (Castor fiber) were tested …

The present investigation was designed to determine the meat nutritional profile of
European beaver (Castor fiber L.). The proximate composition, energy value, amino acids …

The chemical composition, content of cholesterol, retinol and α-tocopherol, and the total
antioxidant capacity of different tissues from wild beavers were investigated. The total …

Ten beaver (Castor fiber) females were used in the experiment. The samples were excised
from a different anatomical location of each beaver carcass used in the study: m …