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Transcriptional analysis of abdominal fat in genetically fat and lean chickens reveals adipokines, lipogenic genes and a link between hemostasis and leanness.
BMC genomics - 16 Aug 2013
Resnyk Christopher W, Carré Wilfrid, Wang Xiaofei, Porter Tom E, Simon Jean, Le Bihan-Duval Elisabeth, Duclos Michael J, Aggrey Sam E, Cogburn Larry A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: This descriptive study of the abdominal fat transcriptome takes advantage of two experimental lines of meat-type chickens (Gallus domesticus), which were selected over seven generations for a large difference in abdominal (visceral) fatness. At the age of selection (9 wk), the fat line (FL) and lean line (LL) chickens exhibit a 2.5-fold difference in abdominal fat weight, while their feed intake and...
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