Project description:Transciprional profiling of horn forming region of Bos taurus comparing horned, polled and scurred cattle. 3 condition experiment, Polled vs Horned, Polled vs Scurred, Scurred vs Horned, male and female samples, including dye swaps. 5 chips. No confounding between sex and chip. No confounding between indivdual and chip.
Project description:The developing vertebrate growth plates in long bones have three morphologically distinct layers of chondrocytes: Round Cell layer, Flat Cell layer, and Hypertrophic Cell layer. Round chondrocytes differentiate into flat chondrocytes, and then flat chondrocytes differentiate into hypertrophic chondrocytes. To investigate the genetic programs underlying the chondrocyte differentiation, we obtained total RNA from the microdissected cryosections from each layer and then performed microarray analysis.
