The US Pork Center of Excellence will host a workshop on the newly released National Swine Nutrition Guide in conjunction with the JAM.

The paper, entitled “The IGF2 intron3-g.3072G>A polymorphism is not the only SSC2p mutation affecting meat production and carcass traits in pigs: evidences from the effects of cathepsin D (CTSD) gene polymorphism” can be found in full at jas.fass.org:J Anim Sci 2010 88: 2904-2912.

The paper is entitled “Development and evaluation of feeding-period average dry matter intake prediction equations from a commercial feedlot database,” and can be found in full at jas.fass.org: J Anim Sci 2010 88: 3009-3017.

The report by Bierman et al. is entitled “Fine-mapping quantitative trait loci for twinning rate on BTA14 in North American Holsteins.” It was first published online by the Journal of Animals Science in March, 2010. Read it in full at jas.fass.org: J. Anim Sci. 2010 88: 2556-2564.