Project description:<p>Background The gut microbiota plays a significant role in modulating the growth and function of host muscle, and microbiota transplantation experiments provide compelling evidence of its capacity to improve muscle quality. Feeding faba beans improves the muscle quality of Yellow River carp. However, the changes in gut microbiota, along with the specific microorganisms, metabolic pathways, and regulatory mechanisms linked to the enhancement of muscle quality following faba bean consumption remain to be elucidated.</p><p>Results After a 6-week feeding trial with faba beans, growth performance decreased, but muscle texture improved (P < 0.05). Gut microbiota structure also changed, with increased relative abundances of Aeromonas, ZOR0006, Cetobacterium, and Atopobium. Following 8 weeks of whole-intestinal microbiota transplantation (WIMT) from faba bean-fed donors to basal diet-fed recipients of Yellow River carp, growth performance remained unchanged (P > 0.05), while muscle texture improved (P < 0.05). This improvement was mainly due to increased small-diameter muscle fibers, higher collagen levels, and reduced muscle fat content (P < 0.05), which partially replicated the muscle texture of donor fish. Moreover, WIMT promotes intestinal structure and barrier integrity, with significant changes in gut microbiota structure and metabolic profile. WIMT improved the muscle quality of Yellow River carp by regulating mitochondrial autophagy and adipocytokine signaling pathways through the gut-muscle axis. Cetobacterium somerae (C. somerae) and its metabolites, such as acetic acid, played a crucial role in this process. Further feeding experiments demonstrated that C. somerae and acetic acid reduced the crude fat content of muscle while increasing the crude protein and collagen (P < 0.05). C. somerae also mitigated muscle protein degradation under inflammatory and enhanced collagen (P < 0.05), thereby improving muscle texture.</p><p>Conclusion This study establishes that gut microbiota enhance muscle quality in Yellow River carp through WIMT, identifies C. somerae and its metabolite acetic acid as key contributors. The findings provide novel evidence for fish gut-muscle axis research and offer new scientific basis for improving Yellow River carp muscle quality.</p>
2025-10-13 | MTBLS13128 | MetaboLights
Project description:Mining candidate genes for abnormal red body color traits of cultured Yellow River Carp(Cyprinus carpio haematopterus) based on BSA whole genome resequencing
Project description:In order to explore the regulatory information of the two different color associations in crucian carp, we identified the differential miRNAs of gold and greenish grey by smallRNA sequencing, and analyzed their functional and pathway enrichment.
Project description:Apple is a woody tree in the Rosaceae family, genus Apple. It has been widely reported that MYBs are critical regulators for red color of apple peel by activating the expression of anthocyanin biogenesis genes. However, it is still not clear what is the molecular mechanism for the yellow color of apple peel. In order to investigate key genes and metabolites responsible for yellow coloration of apple peel, three strains of apples, "Venus Gold (Ype)" with yellow peel, "Yanfu8 (Mpe)" with medium red peel, and "Red love" with dark red peel, were selected in this study. Transcriptomic and metabolomic profiles were obtained for the peels of the three apple strains, respectively. After analyzing the transcriptomic profiles, our results suggest that DFR and LAR1 are two critical genes for the yellow color of Ype peel. Analysis of metabolomic profiles revealed that the abundances of Catechin and Epicatechin in Ype peel was higher than that of Rpe, indicating an important reason for the yellow color of Ype peel. Furthermore, when comparing volatile metabolites from Ype, Mpe and Rpe, hundreds of volatile metabolites show significantly differently abundances, suggesting that apples with different peel colors have different odors. In summary, our results provide new insights into the yellow coloration for the peels of some apple cultivars.
Project description:the current study paints a thorough transcriptome profiles of different skin color groups (white, yellow and brown) in celestial goldfish, and several candidate genes were selected as important functional genes involved in the color variation
Project description:In order to explore the regulatory information of the two different color associations in crucian carp, we identified the differential mRNAs of gold and greenish grey by transcriptome sequencing, and analyzed their functional and pathway enrichment.
Project description:The coat color of mammals is determined by the melanogenesis pathway, which is responsible for maintaining the balance between black-brown eumelanin and yellow-reddish phaeomelanin. It is also believed that the color of the bovine nose is regulated in a similar manner; however, the molecular mechanism underlying pigment deposition in the black nose has yet to be elucidated. The aim of the present study was to identify melanogenesis-associated genes that are differentially expressed in the black vs. yellow nose of native Korean cows.
2013-12-26 | GSE53657 | GEO
Project description:The genome resequencing of common carp var. 'Yellow River'
Project description:Ilex x ‘Whoa Nellie’ is a yellow leaf (YT) mutant of I. x ‘Nellie R. Stevens’ (WT), an important ornamental woody species. However, the molecular mechanism of the YT mutant remains unknown. Therefore,we compared yellow-colored mutant leaves and normal green leaves in transcriptomic terms. Our study contributed to uncovering molecular mechanisms underlying yellow leaf mutaion and provided a reference for the application of leaf color mutants.