Key genes regulating skeletal muscle development and growth in farm animals

M Mohammadabadi, F Bordbar, J Jensen, M Du… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Skeletal muscle mass is an important economic trait, and muscle
development and growth is a crucial factor to supply enough meat for human consumption …

Genes related to fat metabolism in pigs and intramuscular fat content of pork: A focus on nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics

IH Malgwi, V Halas, P Grünvald, S Schiavon, I Jócsák - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The intramuscular fat (IMF) or marbling is an essential pork sensory quality
that influences the preference of the consumers and premiums for pork. IMF is the streak of …

Osteogenesis depends on commissioning of a network of stem cell transcription factors that act as repressors of adipogenesis

A Rauch, AK Haakonsson, JGS Madsen, M Larsen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mesenchymal (stromal) stem cells (MSCs) constitute populations of mesodermal multipotent
cells involved in tissue regeneration and homeostasis in many different organs. Here we …

The genome variation and developmental transcriptome maps reveal genetic differentiation of skeletal muscle in pigs

Y Yang, J Yan, X Fan, J Chen, Z Wang, X Liu, G Yi… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Natural and artificial directional selections have resulted in significantly genetic and
phenotypic differences across breeds in domestic animals. However, the molecular …

Identification of differentially expressed genes and pathways for intramuscular fat deposition in pectoralis major tissues of fast-and slow-growing chickens

HX Cui, RR Liu, GP Zhao, MQ Zheng, JL Chen, J Wen - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Intramuscular fat (IMF) is one of the important factors influencing meat quality,
however, for chickens, the molecular regulatory mechanisms underlying this trait have not …

MicroRNA-26b functions as a proapoptotic factor in porcine follicular Granulosa cells by targeting Sma-and Mad-related protein 4

J Liu, X Du, J Zhou, Z Pan, H Liu, Q Li - Biology of reproduction, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Sma-and Mad-related protein 4 (SMAD4) is the central mediator of the transforming growth
factor beta signaling pathway and is closely related to mammalian reproductive ability and …

Analysis of DNA methylation profiles during sheep skeletal muscle development using whole-genome bisulfite sequencing

Y Fan, Y Liang, K Deng, Z Zhang, G Zhang, Y Zhang… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is an epigenetic regulatory form that plays an important role in
regulating the gene expression and the tissues development.. However, DNA methylation …

Comparative analysis of muscle transcriptome between pig genotypes identifies genes and regulatory mechanisms associated to growth, fatness and metabolism

M Ayuso, A Fernandez, Y Nunez, R Benitez, B Isabel… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Iberian ham production includes both purebred (IB) and Duroc-crossbred (IBxDU) Iberian
pigs, which show important differences in meat quality and production traits, such as muscle …

Systematic identification and characterization of long intergenic non-coding RNAs in fetal porcine skeletal muscle development

W Zhao, Y Mu, L Ma, C Wang, Z Tang, S Yang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) play important roles in many cellular
processes. Here, we present the first systematic identification and characterization of …

Identification of genes related to growth and lipid deposition from transcriptome profiles of pig muscle tissue

Z Wang, Q Li, Y Chamba, B Zhang, P Shang, H Zhang… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Transcriptome profiles established using high-throughput sequencing can be effectively
used for screening genome-wide differentially expressed genes (DEGs). RNA sequences …