Muscle fibre ontogenesis in farm animal species | Myogenèse chez les animaux producteurs de viande
2002
Picard, B. ((Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, St-Genès-Champanelle (France). Centre de Clermont-Ferrand Theix Lyon, Unité de Recherche sur les Herbivores)) | Lefaucheur, L. | Berri, C. | Duclos, M.J.
In farm animals (bovine, ovine, swine, rabbit and poultry), muscle fibre characteristics play a key role in meat quality. The present review summarises the knowledge on muscle fibre characteristics and ontogenesis in these species. Myofibre ontogenesis begins very early during embryonic life, with the appearance of two or three successive waves of myoblasts which constitute the origin of the different types of muscle fibres. In small animals (rodents and poultry), a primary and a secondary generation of fibres arise respectively during the embryonic and foetal stages of development. In the largest species (bovines, sheep, pigs) a third generation arises in the late foetal or early post-natal period. Following these two or three waves of myogenesis, the total number of fibres is fixed. This occurs during foetal life (bovines, ovines, pigs and poultry) or during the first postnatal month in rabbits. Contractile and metabolic differentiation proceed by steps in parallel to myogenesis and are partially linked to each other. In bovines and ovines, the main events occur during foetal life, whereas they occur soon after birth in the pig, poultry and rabbit, but some plasticity remains later in life in all species. This comparative survey shows that the cellular processes of differentiation are comparable between species, while their timing is usually species specific
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