Identification of SNPs Associated with Stress Response Traits within High Stress and Low Stress Lines of Japanese Quail.

ABSTRACT: Mitigation of stress is of great importance in poultry production, as chronic stress can affect the efficiency of production traits. Selective breeding with a focus on stress responses can be used to combat the effects of stress. To better understand the genetic mechanisms driving differences in stress responses of a selectively bred population of Japanese quail, we performed genomic resequencing on 24 birds from High Stress (HS) and Low Stress (LS) lines of Japanese quail using Illumina HiSeq 2 × 150 bp paired end read technology in order to analyze Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) within the genome of each line. SNPs are common mutations that can lead to genotypic and phenotypic variations in animals. Following alignment of the sequencing data to the quail genome, 6,364,907 SNPs we

SUBMITTER: Shumaker S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8000459 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature