Animal Bioscience

Asian Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies (아세아태평양축산학회)
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Estimation of genetic parameters for pork belly traits

  • Seung-Hoon Lee (Department of Animal Science and Technology, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Sang-Hoon Lee (Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) ;
  • Hee-Bok Park (Department of Animal Resources, Kongju National University) ;
  • Jun-Mo Kim (Department of Animal Science and Technology, Chung-Ang University)
  • Received : 2022.10.11
  • Accepted : 2023.02.24
  • Published : 2023.08.01
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Abstract

Objective: Pork belly is a cut of meat with high worldwide demand. However, although the belly is comprised of multiple muscles and fat, unlike the loin muscle, research on their genetic parameters has yet to focus on a representative cut. To use swine breeding, it is necessary to estimate heritability against pork belly traits. Moreover, estimating genetic correlations is needed to identify genetic relationship among the traditional carcass and meat quality traits. This study sought to estimate the heritability of the carcass, belly, and their component traits, as well as the genetic correlations among them, to confirm whether these traits can be improved. Methods: A total of 543 Yorkshire pigs (406 castrated males and 137 females) from 49 sires and 244 dam were used in this study. To estimate genetic parameters, a total of 12 traits such as lean meat production ability, meat quality and pork belly traits were chosen. The heritabilities were estimated by using genome-wide efficient mixed model association software. The statistical model was selected so that farm, carcass weight, sex, and slaughter season were fixed effects. In addition, its genetic parameters were calculated via MTG2 software. Results: The heritability estimates for the 7th belly slice along the whole plate and its components were low to moderate (0.07±0.07 to 0.33±0.07). Moreover, the genetic correlations among the carcass and belly traits were moderate to high (0.28±0.20 to 0.99±0.31). Particularly, the rectus abdominis muscle exhibited a high absolute genetic correlation with the belly and meat quality (0.73±52 to 0.93±0.43). Conclusion: A moderate to high correlation coefficient was obtained based on the genetic parameters. The belly could be genetically improved to contain a larger proportion of muscle regardless of lean meat production ability.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science & Technology Development of the Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea (PJ01620403).

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