Pig Trait Details: Stiffness

QTLdb Trait Hierarchy

Trait Class:	Meat and Carcass
Trait Type:	Stiffening
Trait Name:	Stiffness
Trait ID:	324
Abbreviation:	STIFF
Custom Name:	Rigor mortis
Related / Reported trait: (Figures in parenthesis are the number of data associated with)	Stiffness (5)
Description:	Rigor onset/stiffening in post-mortem muscle
Measurement:	Deflection of spring-loaded gauge
Scale/Unit:	unit
Comments:	n/a

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Links to Formal Trait Ontology

Vertebrate Trait Ontology:	(n/a)
Product Trait Ontology:	[LPT:0000158] Meat stiffening trait
Clinical Measurement Ontology:	(n/a)

The Vertebrate Trait (VT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to the morphology, physiology, or development of vertebrate organisms
The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO) is designed to be used to standardize morphological and physiological measurement records generated from clinical and model organism research and health programs.
Product Trait (PT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to products produced by or obtained from the body of an agricultural animal or bird maintained for use and profit.

REFERENCE
Park CA, Bello SM, Smith CL, Hu ZL, Munzenmaier DH, Nigam R, Smith JR, Shimoyama M, Eppig JT, Reecy JM. (2013) The Vertebrate Trait Ontology: a controlled vocabulary for the annotation of trait data across species. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2013, 4(1):13.