P. F. Arthur, Double muscling in cattle: a review, Aust. J. Agric. Res, vol.46, pp.1493-515, 1995.

B. J. Bassam, G. Caetano-anollés, and P. Gresshoff, Fast and sensitive silver staining of DNA in polyacrylamide gels, Anal. Biochem, vol.196, pp.80-83, 1991.

A. Barroso, S. Dunner, and J. Cañón, Technical note: Detection of bovine Kappacasein variants A, B, C and D by means of polymerase chain reactionsingle strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP), J. Anim. Sci, vol.76, pp.1535-1538, 1998.

I. Cappucio, C. Marchitelli, A. Serracchioli, A. Nardone, F. Filippini et al., A G-T transversion introduces a stop codon at the mh locus in hypertrophic Marchigiana beef subjects, Abstracts of the XXVIth International Conference on Animal Genetics, pp.9-14, 1998.

E. Casas, J. W. Keele, S. D. Shackelford, M. Koohmaraie, T. S. Sonstegard et al., Association of the muscle hypertrophy locus with carcass traits in beef cattle, J. Anim. Sci, vol.76, pp.468-473, 1998.

E. Casas, S. D. Shackelford, J. W. Keele, R. T. Stone, S. M. Kappes et al., Quantitative trait loci affecting growth and carcass composition of cattle segregating alternate forms of myostatin, J. Anim. Sci, vol.78, pp.560-569, 2000.

E. Casas, R. T. Stone, J. W. Keele, S. D. Shackelford, S. M. Kappes et al., A comprehensive search for quantitative trait loci affecting growth and carcass composition of cattle segregating forms of the myostatin gene, J. Anim. Sci, vol.79, pp.854-860, 2001.

C. Charlier, W. Coppieters, F. Farnir, L. Grobet, P. Leroy et al., The mh gene causing double-muscling in cattle maps to bovine Chromosome 2, Mamm. Genome, vol.6, pp.788-792, 1995.

. Dechambre, Les veaux à croupe de poulain, Rech. Méd. Vét., École Alfort, vol.88, pp.93-98, 1911.

B. Denis, Regards sur la « durhamisation » des bovins au XIX e siècle. Des leçons pour aujourd'hui, Renc. Rech. Ruminants, vol.7, pp.8-18, 2000.

S. Dunner, C. Charlier, F. Farnir, B. Brouwers, J. Cañón et al., Towards interbreed IBD fine mapping of the mh locus: double-muscling in the Asturiana de los Valles breed involves the same locus as in the Belgian Blue cattle breed, Mamm. Genome, vol.8, pp.430-435, 1997.

R. E. Ferrel, V. Conte, E. C. Lawrence, S. M. Roth, J. M. Hagberg et al., Frequent sequence variation in the human mysotatin (GDF8) gene as a marker for analysis of muscle-related phenotypes, Genomics, vol.62, pp.203-207, 1999.

N. González-cadavid, W. Taylor, K. Yarasheski, I. Sinha-hikim, K. Ma et al., Organization of the human myostatin gene and expression in healthy men and HIV-infected men with muscle wasting, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol.95, pp.14938-14943, 1998.

L. Grobet, L. Royo, D. Poncelet, D. Pirottin, B. Brouwers et al., A deletion in the myostatin gene causes double-muscling in cattle, Nat. Genet, vol.17, pp.71-74, 1997.

L. Grobet, D. Poncelet, L. Royo, B. Brouwers, D. Pirottin et al., Molecular definition of an allelic series of mutations disrupting the myostatin function and causing double-muscling in cattle, Mamm. Genome, vol.9, pp.210-213, 1998.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02695193

P. D. Grossman, W. Bloch, E. Brinson, C. C. Chang, F. A. Eggerding et al., High-density multiplex detection of nucleic acid sequences: oligonucleotide ligation assay and sequence-coded separation, Nucl. Acids Res, vol.22, pp.4527-4534, 1998.

R. Hanset and C. Michaux, On the genetic determinism of muscular hypertrophy in the Belgian White and Blue cattle breed. I -Experimental data, Génét. Sél. Évol, vol.17, pp.359-368, 1985.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00893652

R. Hanset and C. Michaux, On the genetic determinism of muscular hypertrophy II.-Population data, Génét. Sél. Évol, vol.17, pp.369-386, 1985.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00893652

M. Jean-pierre, A rapid method for the purification of DNA from blood, Nucl. Acids Res, vol.15, p.9611, 1987.

. Kaiser, Uber die sogenannten doppellendigen Rinder, Ladw. Jbr, vol.17, pp.387-403, 1888.

R. Kambadur, M. Sharma, T. P. Smith, and J. J. Bass, Mutations in myostatin (GDF8) in double-muscled Belgian Blue Cattle, Genome Res, vol.7, pp.910-916, 1997.

L. Karim, W. Coppieters, L. Grobet, A. Valentini, and M. Georges, Convenient genotyping of six myostatin mutations causing double-muscling in cattle using a multiplex oligonucleotide ligation assay, Anim. Genet, vol.31, pp.396-399, 2000.

M. Kimura, A simple method for estimating evolutionary rate of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences, J. Mol. Evol, vol.16, pp.111-120, 1980.

A. C. Mcpherron and S. J. Lee, Double muscling in cattle due to mutations in the myostatin gene, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol.94, pp.12457-12461, 1997.

F. Ménissier, Present state of knowledge about the genetic determination of muscular hypertrophy or the double muscled trait in cattle, Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, vol.16, pp.387-428, 1982.

M. E. Miranda, L. Royo, P. García-atance, J. Cañón, M. Georges et al., Análisis de la heterogeneidad alélica del gen de la miostatina en diferentes razas bovinas europeas. VIII Jornadas sobre Producción Animal. Zaragoza 11-13 de mayo, ITEA, vol.20, pp.288-290, 1999.

M. E. Miranda, J. Cañón, F. Ménissier, R. Hanset, J. Williams et al., Identificación de los distintos haplotipos del gen de la miostatina en razas bovina europeas. (ITEA) IX Jornadas sobre Producción Animal. Volumen Extra, Número 22-Tomo I, pp.39-41, 2001.

M. E. Miranda, Y. Amigues, M. Y. Boscher, F. Ménissier, O. Cortés et al., Simultaneous genotyping to detect myostatin gene polymorphism in beef cattle breeds, J. Anim. Breed. Genet, vol.119, pp.361-366, 2002.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02676010

M. Orita, H. Iwahana, H. Kanazawa, K. Hayashi, and T. Sekiya, Detection of polymorphisms of human DNA by gel electrophoresis as single-strand conformation polymorphisms, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol.86, pp.2766-2770, 1998.

M. Orita, Y. Suzuki, and T. Sekiya, Rapid and sensitive detection of point mutations and DNA polymorphisms using the polymerase chain reaction, Genomics, vol.5, pp.874-879, 1998.

. Pyndt and . Dobbeltlaarede-kalve, Maanedsskr. Dyrloeg, vol.19, pp.359-365, 1907.

J. Sambrook, E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis, Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 1989.

D. L. Simon and D. Buchenauer, Publication number 66, 1993.

J. A. Smith, A. M. Lewis, P. Wiener, and J. L. Williams, Genetic variation in the bovine myostatin gene in UK beef cattle: Allele frequencies and haplotype analysis in the South Devon, Anim. Genet, vol.31, pp.306-309, 2000.

T. P. Smith, E. Casas, I. C. Rexroad, S. M. Kappes, and J. W. Keele, Bovine CAPN1 maps to a region of BTA29 containing a quantitative trait locus for meat tenderness, J. Anim. Sci, vol.78, pp.2589-2594, 2000.

S. S. Sommer, J. D. Cassady, J. L. Sobell, and C. D. Bottema, A novel method for detecting point mutations or polymorphisms and its application to population screening for carriers of phenylketonuria, Mayo Clin. Proc, vol.64, pp.1361-1372, 1989.

J. Stephens, J. Schneider, and D. Tanguay, Haplotype variation and linkage disequilibrium in 313 genes, Science, vol.293, pp.489-493, 2001.

. Thierry, Les veaux à cul de poulain, J. Agric. Prat, vol.1, pp.182-184, 1898.

G. A. Watterson and H. A. Guess, Is the most frequent allele the oldest?, Theor. Popul. Biol, vol.11, pp.141-160, 1977.