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Muscles largely differ in thickness due to the variation of their weight during growth, which results mainly from an increase in the diameter of muscle fibres. With increasing thickness, the morphological aspects of the perimysium network is changed. The thickness each muscle may present depends on the dimensions of the skeleton. There is a close relationship between muscle thickness, conformation or fleshiness, meat/bone ratio and meat texture. The thicker the muscles, the better the conformation and the higher the meat/bone ratio and the more tender the meat. All these characteristics are at their maximum development in the hypertrophied type of cattle where muscles show considerable hypertrophy in weight and thickness.
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Dumont, B.L. (1978). Variation and Impact of Muscle Thickness. In: De Boer, H., Martin, J. (eds) Patterns of Growth and Development in Cattle. Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9756-1_8
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