The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
01/Dec/2004
Rilke Tadeu Fonseca de Freitas, Tarcísio de Moraes Gonçalves, Antonio Ilson Gomes de Oliveira, Daniel Furtado Ferreira
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982004000800015
To establish the measures that best define the quality of the carcass of swine, data of lean meat yield (MY), fat yield (FY), dressing percentage (DP), carcass length for the Brazilian Method of Carcass Classification (CLBM), carcass length for the American Method of Carcass Classification (CLAM), average backfat thickness (ABT), backfat thickness 4 cm from the dorsal mid-line (P1), backfat thickness 6.5 cm from the dorsal mid-line (P2), backfat thickness 8 cm from the dorsal mid-line (P3), loin eye area […]
Keywords: cluster analysis; correlation; meat and fat yield