This work was supported by the National Animal Breed Resource Preserve Project (No.200014); the Key Project of Shandong Science and Technology Development (No. 20059913); the Sciences Innovation Foundation of Shandong Agricultural University.
Eighty-four castrated boars including Laiwu Black (LW) (weight 30-90 kg, n = 6) and Lulai Black (LL) (weight 40-100 kg, n = 6) were used to study the developmental changes of collagen type Ⅲ alpha 1 (Col3al...