mainly on the shoots, seeds and flowers of heather. It will also feed on berries, cereal crops and sometimes insects. Breeding form pairs during the autumn males become increasingly territorial as winter progresses nest is a shallow scrape up to 20 cm across which is lined with vegetation six to nine eggs are laid, mainly during April and May glossy and pale yellow with dark brown blotches eggs are incubated for 19 to 25 days, the chicks can fly after 12 to 13 days after hatching and are fully grown after 30 to 35 days The Red Grouse and humans game bird shot in large numbers during the shooting season Parasites and viruses Strongylosis or 'grouse disease' is caused by the strongyle worms Louping ill virus is a flavivirus (RNA virus) The main tick vector is the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus nematode worm Trichostrongylus tenuis
translation initiation factor 5A, α-crystallin, and 7 days postmortem in porcine longissi- creatine kinase, and pyruvate kinase were mus muscle (Hwang et al. 2005). In longis- also found to change with postmortem simus muscle from Korean native cattle, storage in these studies (Lametsch et al. researchers identified seven proteins that are 2003; Morzel et al. 2004). Using a model in differentially expressed in samples from which isolated myofibrils were incubated carcasses segregated into high- and low-qual- with μ-calpain under simulated postmortem ity beef grades (based on marbling, lean conditions and protein degradation was mea- color, fat color, maturity, and tenderness) sured by combining MALDI-TOF MS with (Kim et al. 2008). Both HSP27 and inositol SDS-PAGE and 2DE, one study observed 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3R1), which is involved