Project description:Ovaries transcriptomic profiling between of egg of three high number of laying eggs (HEN) and three low number of laying eggs (LEN) in Longyan Shan-ma duck at 71 weeks were sequenced using Illumina Hiseq 2500 technology.
Project description:The objective of this study was to identify the molecular mechanisms and biological pathways associated with the anticancer effects of flaxseed (richest plant source of Omega-3 fatty acid) in laying hen model of ovarian cancer. Study shows a significant reduction in the severity of the disease and increased survival of the laying hens fed with flaxseed.
Project description:The aim of this study was to assess the impact of oocyte competence on subsequent fertility. Based on knowledge already accessible in mammals and on bioinformatics tools including the chicken genome sequence, we focused on the expression of genes involved in the processes of fertilization and of early embryo development. A differential kinetic study is performed on INRA lines selected on the basis of their fertility potential in purpose of hopefully access gene markers of fertility performance. We use 4 different hen lines: - one line of laying hens with 3 different samples: the just ovulated oocyte, the oocyte collected 24 hours before ovulation (F1 stage), and granulosa cells collected at the F1 stage. We could compare different tissue and developmental stages. - one line of hen with rapid growth speed - two lines of laying hens For the 3 last lines we used animals with different fertility levels. We collected the oocyte of the largest follicle before ovulation (F1). The aim of the study is to identify genes involved in fertility or early embryo mortality. Keywords: normal vs disease comparison
Project description:The aim of this study was to assess the impact of oocyte competence on subsequent fertility. Based on knowledge already accessible in mammals and on bioinformatics tools including the chicken genome sequence, we focused on the expression of genes involved in the processes of fertilization and of early embryo development. A differential kinetic study is performed on INRA lines selected on the basis of their fertility potential in purpose of hopefully access gene markers of fertility performance. We use 4 different hen lines:; - one line of laying hens with 3 different samples: the just ovulated oocyte, the oocyte collected 24 hours before ovulation (F1 stage), and granulosa cells collected at the F1 stage. We could compare different tissue and developmental stages. - one line of hen with rapid growth speed; - two lines of laying hens; For the 3 last lines we used animals with different fertility levels. We collected the oocyte of the largest follicle before ovulation (F1). The aim of the study is to identify genes involved in fertility or early embryo mortality. Experiment Overall Design: 6 arrays - Gallus gallus
Project description:A total of 565 miRNAs annotated in miRBase 20.0 were identified to be expressed in the liver of hen by high-throughput sequencing three biological reduplication libraries in juvenile and egg-laying hens, respectively. Compared with juvenile hen, 80 miRNAs (67 down-regulated and 13 up-regulated) were verified to be significant differential expression (SDE) in egg-laying physiological stage. Among these, miR-22-3p has the highest abundant expression, and miR-146b-5p has the highest fold-change. Additionally, 19 of the 71 novel miRNAs was significantly expressed. Furthermore, 648 putative target genes of the SDE miRNAs were obtained, and among these, FADS1, FADS2, ELOVL6, ACSL5, etc which are lipid metabolism related critical regulators are targeted by some SDE miRNAs. Gene Ontology (GO) analyses to the putative target genes of all the SDE miRNAs showed significantly enriched in Steroid biosynthesis, Glycerophospholipid metabolism, Biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids, and PPAR signaling pathway (P ≤ 0.05). Meanwhile, GO terms are also significantly enriched in lipid related biological processes.
Project description:Purpose: With the advent of Next-generation sequencing (NGS), several novel genes/proteins and cellular pathways in wide varitey of tissues has discovered. The aim of this study are to perform transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of magnum to determine differently expressed genes in laying and non-laying hens and to further validate the expression of candidate genes using real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT–PCR) in laying, non-laying and molting hens. Methods: Magnum mRNA profiles of 35-60 weeks-old laying and non-laying hens, three each, were generated with NextSeq 500 sequencer in single-end mode with a read length of 1x76 bp. Raw sequencing reads were cleaned and trimmmed with Prinseq tool and good reads were aligned against the chicken reference gemone (Galgal 5.0) in Array Studio. Differential gene expression analysis was performed by the DESeq2 algorithm as implemented in Array Studio. The genes with at least three-fold change (FC) and Benjamini and Hochberg q-value < 0.05 were called differentially expressed. Results: Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we mapped about 30.5 million reads from layers and 33.4 million reads from non-layers to the chicken genome. A total of 19,152 gene transcripts were annotated from Ensembl alignment which represents 50.24% of the chicken genome assembly. Differential gene expression analysis showed 540 were differentially expressed between layer and non-layer hens. 152 DEGs were significantly up-regulated and 388 were significantly down-regulated in the laying hens when compared to the non-laying hens. Conclusions: Our study reports the expression of several pre-discovered and many novel genes that may be involved in the transport of precurosor molecules for biosynthesis and secretion of the egg-white proteins in the magnum. These genes can be used as quantitative basis of selecting hens with an improved egg quality.