Reliability of a White Striping Scoring System and Description of White Striping Prevalence in Purebred Turkey Lines [PDF]
Animals, 2022 To efficiently meet consumer demands for high-quality lean meat, turkeys are selected for increased meat yield, mainly by increasing breast muscle size and growth efficiency.
Ryley J. Vanderhout +10 more
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Genetic architecture of white striping in turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWhite striping (WS) is a myopathy of growing concern to the turkey industry. It is rising in prevalence and has negative consequences for consumer acceptance and the functional properties of turkey meat.
Ryley J. Vanderhout +5 more
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Pathologic characterization of white striping myopathy in broiler chickens [PDF]
Poultry Science, 2021 : White striping (WS) is an emerging myopathy of broiler chickens characterized by white striation of muscle. Despite the recent advances, the pathomechanism underlying the WS remains elusive.The aim of this study was to characterize morphological and ...
Francesco Prisco +9 more
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Quality of turkeys breast meat affected by white striping myopathy [PDF]
Poultry Science, 2021 The aim of this study was to characterize the breast meat of turkeys affected by different degrees of severity (normal [NORM], moderate [MOD], and severe [SEV]) of the white striping (WS) myopathy, as well as to evaluate the influence of this myopathy on
Larissa Tátero Carvalho +10 more
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Identification of circulating metabolites associated with wooden breast and white striping [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Current diagnostic methods for wooden breast and white striping, common breast muscle myopathies of modern commercial broiler chickens, rely on subjective examinations of the pectoralis major muscle, time-consuming microscopy, or expensive imaging ...
Juniper A. Lake +5 more
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Broiler White Striping: A Review of Its Etiology, Effects on Production, and Mitigation Efforts [PDF]
Poultry, 2023 With an increase in the demand and production of chicken products, broilers have been bred to grow larger at a faster rate. This has led to several myopathies, one of which being white striping, which is now common to almost all broilers and is ...
Jessie Lee, Michael J. Mienaltowski
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Implications of white striping and wooden breast abnormalities on quality traits of raw and marinated chicken meat [PDF]
Animal, 2015 One of the consequences of intense genetic selection for growth of poultry is the recent appearance of abnormalities in chicken breast muscles, such as white striping (characterised by superficial white striations) and wooden breast (characterised by ...
S. Mudalal +4 more
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Effect of white striping on chemical composition and nutritional value of chicken breast meat [PDF]
Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2014 White striping defect (appearance of white striations parallel to muscle fiber on surface of breast) is considered an emerging issue in chicken breast meat which is related to increasing growth rate of modern hybrid birds.
Massimiliano Petracci +3 more
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Molecular Phenotyping of White Striping and Wooden Breast Myopathies in Chicken [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 The White Striping (WS) and Wooden Breast (WB) defects are two myopathic syndromes whose occurrence has recently increased in modern fast-growing broilers.
Christophe Praud +6 more
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Effect of white striping on turkey breast meat quality
Animal, 2018 In the past decades, the intense selection practices carried out in order to develop fast growing and high breast-yield turkey hybrids profoundly modified the muscle physiology leading to the development of growth-related alterations and muscular ...
F. Soglia +5 more
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