Revealing Pathways Associated with Feed Efficiency and Meat Quality Traits in Slow-Growing Chickens.

ABSTRACT: Here, molecular pathways and genes involved in the feed efficiency (FE) and thigh-meat quality of slow-growing Korat chickens were investigated. Individual feed intake values and body weights were collected weekly to the calculate feed conversion ratios (FCR) and residual feed intake. The biochemical composition and meat quality parameters were also measured. On the basis of extreme FCR values at 10 weeks of age, 9 and 12 birds from the high and the low FCR groups, respectively, were selected, and their transcriptomes were investigated using the 8 × 60 K Agilent chicken microarray. A weighted gene co-expression network analysis was performed to determine the correlations between co-expressed gene modules and FE, thigh-meat quality, or both. Groups of birds with different FE values also had

SUBMITTER: Poompramun C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8532858 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature