Genome-wide transcriptome profiling reveals the mechanisms underlying muscle group-specific phenotypic changes under different raising systems in ducks.

Abstract excerpt

Although a number of nongenetic factors have been reported to be able to modulate skeletal muscle phenotypes in meat-type birds, neither the underlying mechanisms nor the muscle group-specific phenotypic and molecular responses have been fully understood. In the present study, a total of 240 broiler ducks were used to compare the effects of floor raising system (FRS) and net raising system (NRS) on the...

Topics

• Animal Husbandry
• Animals
• Ducks
• Gene Expression Profiling
• Genome-Wide Association Study
• Meat
• Muscle, Skeletal
• Phenotype
• Transcriptome