Exploring the Longissimus Muscle: Unraveling its Correlation with Meat Quality in Bos indicus and Crossbred Bulls

Our research involves improving beef cattle nutrition and production, with a significant focus on feed efficiency and meat quality traits. Recently, we have investigated several feed efficiency index of cattle. For example, the residual feed intake, to understand their impact on carcass and meat quality traits.

We applied biochemical and molecular assays, including proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomic approach, to investigate beef cattle nutrition strategy, particularly in feedlot diets. Besides, we also aim to explain the difference in meat quality traits between cattle breeds and sex class. The last years, our findings explored the muscle tissue proteome of beef cattle, which allow us to a better understand of our nutritional strategy used in the livestock production systems.

Our lab will focus on omic related analytic technologies and bioinformatics to identify proteins related to growth and meat quality traits of livestock species, since they are the main constituents of muscle tissue and also they're responsible for regulation of the main metabolic pathways.