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Revealing Pathways Associated with Feed Efficiency and Meat Quality Traits in Slow-Growing Chickens

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Here, molecular pathways and genes involved in the feed efficiency (FE) and thigh-meat quality of slow-growing Korat chickens were investigated. Individual feed intake values and body weights were collected weekly to the calculate feed conversion ratios (FCR) and residual feed intake. The biochemical composition and meat quality parameters were also measured. On the basis of extreme FCR values at 10 weeks of age, 9 and 12 birds from the high and the low FCR groups, respectively, were selected, and their transcriptomes were investigated using the 8 × 60 K Agilent chicken microarray. A weighted gene co-expression network analysis was performed to determine the correlations between co-expressed gene modules and FE, thigh-meat quality, or both. Groups of birds with different FE values also had different nucleotide, lipid, and protein contents in their thigh muscles. In total, 38 modules of co-expressed genes were identified, and 12 were correlated with FE and some meat quality traits. A functional analysis highlighted several enriched functions, such as biological processes, metabolic processes, nucleotide metabolism, and immune responses. Several molecular factors were involved in the interactions between FE and meat quality, including the assembly competence domain, baculoviral IAP repeat containing 5, cytochrome c oxidase assembly factor 3, and myosin light chain 9 genes.

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hal-03481008 , version 1 (15-12-2021)

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Chotima Poompramun, Christelle Hennequet-Antier, Kanjana Thumanu, Panpradub Sinpru, Saknarin Pengsanthia, et al.. Revealing Pathways Associated with Feed Efficiency and Meat Quality Traits in Slow-Growing Chickens. Animals, 2021, 11 (10), pp.2977. ⟨10.3390/ani11102977⟩. ⟨hal-03481008⟩
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