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Animal Frontiers: The Review Magazine of Animal Agriculture logoLink to Animal Frontiers: The Review Magazine of Animal Agriculture
. 2021 Dec 17;11(6):5–6. doi: 10.1093/af/vfab076

Fetal programming in ruminant animals: understanding skeletal muscle development to improve meat quality

PMCID: PMC8683144  PMID: 34934524

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This issue focuses on how nutrition and environment interacts with the epigenome and may influence phenotypic expression. The ultimate consequences on animal production and animal health are examined for their potential application to animal agriculture (Schenkel, 2021).

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  1. Schenkel FS 2021. Prospects for exploiting epigenetic in livestock production.. Prospects for exploiting epigenetic in livestock production. Anim. Front. 11(6):3–4. doi: 10.1093/af/vfab071 [DOI] [Google Scholar]

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