Project description:Developmental dynamics of miRNAs across chicken pectoral muscle and effect of gga-miRNA-454 on the differentiation of myoblasts inhibits myoblast differentiation by targeting SBF2
Project description:Copy number variation profiles comparing control female Dehong chiken blood DNA with 11 different chicken breeds(Silkie, Tibetan Chicken, Gallus gallus spadiceus, Bearded Chicken, Jinhu Chicken, Anak Chicken, Beijing Fatty Chicken, Langshan Chicken, Qingyuan partridge Chicken, Shek-Ki Chicken, Wenchang Chicken) blood DNA. Each test breeds had one male and one female sample, totally 22 test DNA samples.Goal is to get the golbal copy number variation profile between chicken breeds.
Project description:In the modern chicken industry, fast-growing broilers have undergone strong artificial selection for muscle growth, which has led to remarkable phenotypic variations compared with slow-growing chickens. However, the molecular mechanism underlying these phenotypes differences remains unknown. In this study, a systematic identification of candidate genes and new pathways related to myofiber development and composition in chicken Soleus muscle has been made using gene expression profiles of two distinct breeds: Qingyuan partridge (QY), a slow-growing Chinese breed possessing high meat quality and Cobb 500 (CB), a commercial fast-growing broiler line. Agilent cDNA microarray analyses were conducted to determine gene expression profiles of soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscle sampled at sexual maturity age of QY (112 d) and CB (42 d).
Project description:Affymetrix GeneChip miRNA Array was used to globally identify different expression miRNAs in hypothalamus, liver, breast muscle and abdominal fat between commercial broilers and indigenous chickens at seven-week old with hypertrophic pectoral muscle or normal pectoral muscle.
Project description:Purpose: The goal of this study was to compare the microRNA transcriptomes of four high-altitude vertebrates and their low-altitude relatives for six organs (heart,liver,spleen,lung,kidney and muscle). Methods: Three adult females for each population of the five species from distinct altitudes (600 m, 2000 m, and 3000 m) were humanely killed to ameliorate suffering. A piece of tissue fragments from six organs including heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney and skeletal muscle(longissimus muscle for pig, cattle, yak and sheep, and pectoral muscle for chicken) were used to extract total RNA. Small RNA libraries were constructed using the Illumina TruSeq Small RNA Sample Prep kit and sequenced on the Illumina HiSeq 2500. The raw data were submitted to miRDeep2.0 to detect miRNAs for each species with default parameters. Results: we detected 2,036 mature miRNAs in five species and identified 49 orthologues among vertebrate, 111 orthologues in artiodactyla and 171 orthologues in ruminant . Conclusions: We identified comparable numbers of miRNAs in each species.
Project description:We report the genome-wide DNA methylation mapping of chicken by methylated DNA immunoprecipitation following by highthroughput sequencing, and the gene expression profile of chicken by RNA-seq. For meDIP-seq, about 17,202,074 to 27,501,760 reads were generated for the tissue and liver tissues of the red jungle fowl and the avian broiler each. We found that compared with the red jungle fowl, DNA methylation in muscle tissue of the avian broiler, showed dramatically decline on a genome-wide scale. Furthermore, the length of the highly methylated regions (HMRs) has become shorter in the avian broiler, which has suffered intense artificial selection. In addition to the global changes in DNA methylation, transcriptome-wide analysis of the two breeds of chicken revealed that the patterns of gene expression in the domestic chicken have undergone a specific bias towards a pattern that is more suited to human-made environments with variable expression in certain gene functions, such as immune response and fatty acid metabolism. Our results demonstrated a potential role of epigenetic modification in animal domestication besides the genetic variations. Examination of whole genome DNA methylation status in liver and muscle of two chicken breeds.
Project description:In the current study, we expanded our previous work to identify miRNAs implicated in the myogenesis regulation through the comparison of miRNAs transcriptome in skeletal muscle tissues between broilers and layers. To address that, we firstly performed Solexa deep sequencing to profile miRNAs expressed in chicken skeletal muscle tissues. Sequence tags analyses not only enable us to report a group of highly abundant known miRNAs expressed in skeletal muscles but most importantly to identify novel putative chicken miRNAs from skeletal muscle tissue. Further miRNA transcriptome comparison and real-time RT-PCR validation experiments revealed seveal differentially expressed miRNAs between broilers and layers.
Project description:A comparative profile of miRNAs in pectoral muscle during pigeon development was performed by using high-throughput sequencing. We identified known pigeon miRNAs, novel miRNAs, and miRNAs that are conserved in other birds and mammals.Our results expanded the repertoire of pigeon miRNAs and may be of help in better understanding the mechanism of squab’s rapid development.
Project description:Purpose:We have used RNA-seq to examine of differentially expressed miRNAs in chicken leg muscle of three different development stages (11 embryo ages, 16 embryo ages, and 1 day old post hatch chick).The aims of this study are characterization of miRNAs differentially expressed in different developmental stage of chicken embryo, using RNA sequence sample. Methods: On this study we used two embryonic stage and one post hatch chick leg muscle of Xinghua chicken breed. Total RNA from E11 day embryo, E16 day embryo and 1 day post hatch chick was isolated by TRIzol following the manufacturer’s protocol (Invitrogen, CA, USA). Each stages were designed two samples, and the total samples were six (three group × two sample/group) and RNA samples of six individuals were pooled with equal amounts, and then were subjected to Illumina deep sequencing. Results: After eliminating adaptor and low-quality reads, a total of 5,302,700, 6,556,747, 5,359,793, 4,213,112, 7,112,885 and 7,469,939 clean reads were obtained in group E11 (E11.1-E11.2), group E16 (E16.1-E16.2) and group P1 (P1.1–P1.2) libraries, respectively. The clean reads were aligned to the chicken genome databases, miRBase, Rfam, RepBase and mRNA. Conclusions:To assess miRNA expression during chicken embryo skeletal muscle development, we sequenced and analyzed leg muscle at 11 day embryo age, 16 day embryo age, and 1 days post hatch.