Project description:Studying the causes and correlations of individual or age variation in gene expression is necessary for securing the reliability of the experimental animal. Feature of the blood gene expression of miniature pigs of fetus, 12, 20 and 30 weeks of age was examined. Gene expression in male and female miniature pigs was measured at fetus, 12, 20 and 30 weeks of age.
Project description:Streptococcus suis is an important zoonotic pathogen that can cause meningitis and sepsis in both pigs and humans. In this study,we evaluated the genetic difference of 40 Streptococcus suis strains belonging to various sequence types by comparative genomic hybridization to identify genes associated with the variation in pathogenicity using NimbleGen’s tilling microarray platform. Application of Comparative Phylogenomics to Identify Genetic Differences Relating to Pathogenicity of Streptococcus suis