Method for investigating pigs - determines whether they are suitable for breeding or fattening

摘要

The method is for categorising pigs to ascertain whether they are suitable for breeding or fattening. It involves taking a sample from the animal and analysing it. The animal is investigated to discover whether it has an inherited defect with regard to an unacceptable smell of the flesh or fat tissue, with the discovery of a metabolite responsible for the odour, and to establish whether a natural enzyme is present which can metabolise the material responsible for the unacceptable smell, or a DNA sequence as a code for the prodn. of the enzyme in question. The test is undertaken pref. for a metabolite of indole or skatole.