Integrated Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Analysis Reveals the Meat Production Features in Hybrid Sheep.

ABSTRACT: This study was conducted to investigate potential regulatory mechanisms of hybridization increased the meat production performance in sheep. Thirty-six 3-month-old male lambs of Suffolk sheep (SFK, n = 12), Hu sheep (HH, n = 12), and their F₁ hybrids (SH, n = 12) were selected and raised in individual pens under identical nutritional supply and husbandry management regimes over a 95-day (including a 15-day pre-trial period) experimental period. At the end of the feeding trial, six sheep closest to the average body weight were selected from each group for the subsequent trial, involving the collection of Longissimus dorsi samples and the determination of production performance, muscle fiber characteristic and transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis. The resul

SUBMITTER: Chen Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12784912 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature