Molecular responses of chicken embryos to maternal heat stress through DNA methylation and gene expression - France Génomique
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Molecular responses of chicken embryos to maternal heat stress through DNA methylation and gene expression

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Abstract Climate change, with its repercussions on agriculture, is one of the most important adaptation challenges for livestock production. Poultry production is a major source of proteins for human consumption all over the world. With a growing human population, improving poultry’s adaptation to environmental constraints becomes critical. Extensive evidence highlights the influence of environmental variations on epigenetic modifications. The aim of this paper is therefore to explore chickens’ molecular response to maternal heat stress. We employed Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (RRBS) to generate genome-wide single-base resolution DNA methylation profiling and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to profile the transcriptome of the brains of embryos hatched from dams reared under either heat stress (32 °C) or thermoneutrality (22°C). We detected 289 significant differentially methylated CpG sites (DMCs) and one differentially methylated region (DMR) between heat stressed and control groups. These DMCs were associated with 357 genes involved in processes such as cellular response to stimulus, developmental processes and immune function. In addition, we identified 11 genes differentially expressed between the two groups of embryos, and identified ATP9A as a target gene of maternal heat stress on offspring. This study provides a body of fundamental knowledge on adaptive mechanisms concerning heat tolerance in chickens.

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Animal biology
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hal-04708370 , version 1 (25-09-2024)

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Keyvan Karami, Jules Sabban, Chloé Cerutti, Guillaume Devailly, Sylvain Foissac, et al.. Molecular responses of chicken embryos to maternal heat stress through DNA methylation and gene expression. 2024. ⟨hal-04708370⟩
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