Project description:To study the effect of chronic heat stress on producing laying type hens, RNA-Seq was performed on liver samples during a 4-week heat stress experiment. RNA-Seq samples were collected 3-hour, 2-weeks, and 4-weeks post heat from both control (unheated) and treatment (heated) birds. RNA was extracted from the tissues with mirVana miRNA Isolation Kit, treated with DNase, and mRNA cDNA libary were prepared with Illumina TrueSeq Stranded mRNA Library Prep Kit. Sequencing was done on 4 lanes with 12 libraries per lane on Illumina HiSeq 3000 platform.
Project description:To study the effect of chronic heat stress on producing laying type hens, RNA-Seq was performed on breast samples during a 4-week heat stress experiment. RNA-Seq samples were collected 3-hour, 2-weeks, and 4-weeks post heat from both control (unheated) and treatment (heated) birds. RNA was extracted from the tissues with RNAqueous Total RNA Isolation Kit, treated with DNase, and mRNA cDNA libary were prepared with Illumina TrueSeq Stranded mRNA Library Prep Kit. Sequencing was done on 4 lanes with 12 libraries per lane on Illumina HiSeq 3000 platform.
Project description:To study the effect of chronic heat stress on mature laying type hens, RNA-Seq was performed on cecal tonsil samples during a 4-week heat stress experiment. RNA-Seq samples were collected 3-hour, 2-weeks, and 4-weeks post heat from both control (unheated) and treatment (heated) birds. RNA was extracted from the tissues with RNAqueous Total RNA Isolation Kit, treated with DNase, and mRNA cDNA libary were prepared with Illumina TrueSeq Stranded mRNA Library Prep Kit. Sequencing was done on 2 lanes with 12 libraries per lane on Illumina HiSeq 3000 platform.
Project description:Background In broilers, heat stress can result in reduced feed consumption, digestive inefficiency, impaired metabolism, and even death. The broiler sector of the U.S. poultry industry incurs approximately $52 million in heat stress-related losses annually. The objective of this study is to characterize the effects of chronic, cyclic heat stress on the transcriptome of a metabolically active organ, the liver. Characterizing the liver transcriptome of heat-stressed broilers will help clarify the effects of heat stress on metabolism. This information will provide a platform for future investigations that further elucidate physiologic responses to heat stress and seek methods to ameliorate the negative impacts of heat. Results Transcriptome sequencing of the livers of 8 broiler males using Illumina HiSeq 2000 technology, resulted in a total of 138 million, 100 base pair single end reads, yielding 13.8 gigabases of sequence. Forty genes were differentially expressed at a significance level of P-value < 0.05 and a fold change ≥ 2 in response to chronic, cyclic heat stress (mid-point of the last day of a 7-day cyclic heat stress of 7 hours per day), with 27 down-regulated and 13 up-regulated. Two gene networks were created from the function-based Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) of the differentially expressed genes; “Cell Signaling, Molecular Transport, Small Molecule Biochemistry” and “Endocrine System Development and Function, Small Molecule Biochemistry Cell Signaling”. Members of the MAPK signaling pathway and differentially expressed genes that are associated with MAPK-related functions were prominent in the networks. Cellular proliferation and differentiation, inflammationand stress-related signaling, and apoptosis-associated genes were down-regulated in response to heat stress. Genes responsible for inhibiting feed intake and sphingolipidrelated signaling were up-regulated. Genes involved with the regulation of inflammation, stress, thyroid hormone level, and body temperature were both up- and down-regulated. Conclusions Chronic, cyclic heat stress of broilers results in metabolic changes that can be characterized through RNA-seq analysis of the liver transcriptome. The primary affected pathways included cell signaling, molecular transport, endocrine system development and signaling, and small molecule biochemistry. Examination of 2 heat treatments. Four heat stressed liver samples and 4 control liver samples analyzed.
Project description:By using a 44k chicken Agilent microarray, we systematically analyzed the chicken hypothalamus transcriptome response to thermal stress. Twelve hypothalamus samples were chosen from three groups (four samples per group) to be used in chicken genome microarray to examine differential gene expression.We compared the expression profiles between each pairs of the three groups using the microarray data. Totally, 2474 genes were found to be differentially expressed in the three comparisons with pM-oM-<M-^\0.05 and fold change (FC) higher than 1.5 and the genes were mainly involved in self-regulation and compensation required to maintain homeostasis, including heat shock protein family, enzyme and the hormone, neurotransmitter, cell-cell signaling, metabolism and cytokines. The transcripts of heat shock protein including Hsp 40 and Hsp 90 were significantly changed respond to thermal stress and genes involved in regulation of cell morphogenesis were significantly upregulated in heat stressed group with comparison to control and temperature recovery group. Additionally, the down-regulated genes in both heat stress and temperature recovery groups compared to control group were enriched in muscle organ development, striated muscle tissue development, cardiac muscle tissue development and muscle tissue development, which indicates that muscle development was inhibited during and in short-term after heat treatment. Most of genes dysregulated in heat stress group were found to be recovered in temperature recovery group, which confirmed their roles they could play in coping with heat stress. The present study provides a broader understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying the stress response in chicken and discovery of novel genes that are regulated in a thermal stress specific manner. Hypothalamus samples were collected from non-heat treated group (reared at 25C, used as control), 24h 34C treated group (heat stress treated group) and temperature recovery group (25C for 24h followed heat stress).
Project description:We have used RNA-seq to examine mRNAs from chicken spleen and bursa of Fabricius of three different condition (non-immunized and non-heat-stressed (24 ± 1℃ for 3 h), immunized (Newcastle disease vaccine) and non-heat-stressed, and immunized and heat-stressed (36 ± 1℃ for 3 h)). To clarify how chicken immune systems responded to heat stress with and without immunization.