1. Animal Breeding & Genomics Centre Environmental and genetic regulation of prenatal events and its importance for postnatal growth performance and meat quality te Pas et al.

2. Animal Breeding & Genomics Centre Myogenesis – as we all know it….

3. Animal Breeding & Genomics Centre Myogenesis – as influenced by…. Environment Nutrition Management Temperature Mother interaction Influence modulated by the Genotype … secondary muscle fibreformation hypertrophic musclefibregrowth birth primary muscle fibreformation maintenance Genetics MRF genes Muscle-specific genes Cell division genes Energy-related genes Affected by Environment … Species- specific

4. Animal Breeding & Genomics Centre A review? Environmental factors Birth weight (Charlotte) Nutrition (Charlotte) Muscle fibre numbers (Charlotte) Carcass composition Meat quality In vitro experiments.. Genetic factors IGF-II (Karijn) Epigenetic expression Satellite cell activity RYR1 (Karijn) Interaction with IGF-II (growth) Selection (Charlotte) Mice: 70 generations Selected – wt pigs Myostatin (Charlotte) hyperplasia Prenatal expression patterns (Marinus) …

5. Animal Breeding & Genomics Centre A review? (2) Why a review? To mark the results of our COST action To reference our publications in connection to each other More references Papers from Antalya Scan papers from other meetings General literature

6. Animal Breeding & Genomics Centre Actions Do we continue? Who would like to participate? Journal? Missing things?