Transcriptome analysis of the livers of ducklings hatched normally and with assistance.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

"Hatchability" is an important economic trait in domestic poultry. Studies on poultry hatchability focus mainly on the genetic background, egg quality, and incubation conditions, whereas the molecular mechanisms behind the phenomenon that some ducklings failed to break their eggshells are poorly understood.

Methods

In this study, the transcriptional differences between the livers of normally hatched and assisted ducklings were systematically analyzed.

Results

The results showed that the clean reads were de novo assembled into 161,804 and 159,083 unigenes (≥200-bp long) by using Trinity, with an average length of 1,206 bp and 882 bp, respectively. The defined criteria of the absolute value of log2 fold-change ≥1 and false discovery rate≤0.05 were differential

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5411839 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature