Project description:Ma-Huang chicken as a high-quality broiler is one of the most popular chickens in the frozen chicken market. However, some chicken may instead have white or lighter skin, which directly causes economic losses every year. To obtain better insight into the molecular mechanisms associated with the process of pigmentation of yellow-skinned broilers reared under intensive conditions, a total of six-hundred Ma-Huang chickens was randomly selected in a single slaughterhouse, the color measurements were carried out on both cloaca(alive) and five different part after slaughtering adopting the L* a* b* system and using a 3nh-NH310 colorimeter, color values from areas of the chicken skin pear each image automatically retrieved by MATLAB, production and slaughtering traits were also measured, comparative transcriptomic analysis of high yellowness(s_deep) versus low yellowness(s_light) skin was performed using the Illumina Hiseq 4000. Average values of the cloaca(alive), cloaca (hair removal), thigh, shank and abdominal fat were 8.98, 7.66, 2.62, 7.29 and 12.86, respectively. The better production and slaughtering traits were observed in higher skin yellowness chicken. Yellowness values of the cloaca(alive) and after slaughtering were significantly correlated (p < 0.05), suggesting that the color of after slaughtering evaluation may be carried out on cloaca(alive). A total of 19061 unigenes were assembled from the reads obtained from the skin of two groups, 882 unigenes were differentially expressed between s_deep and s_light (Fold change ≥ 2, Adjusted P <= 0.001), 612 that up-regulated and 270 that down-regulated genes in s_deep skin, as compared with s_light skin. Twelve promising candidate genes may play an important role in the pigmentation of chicken skin, i.e. GPR143, PMEL, TYR, CYP11A1, TECRL, ACACB, TLR2B, ALDH1A3, FHL2, TECRL, DUOX2, SMOC1 were included. Furthermore, some important functional pathways were revealed, such as the biological process, cellular component and molecular function, which appear to be much activity in skin pigmentation. Our data provide a valuable resource for identifying genes whose functions are critical to skin pigmentation, facilitate understanding the molecular mechanisms of the skin color variation on yellow-skinned broiler chickens under commercial conditions, accelerate the molecular selection of the specific strain on consistent skin colors which allow reduction in pigment use to achieve the skin acceptance by the consumer.

Project description:Purpose: To characterize the functional implication of autophagy in the wheat response to stress, the key genes contributing in mediated salt tolerance of wheat seedlings through 3-MA were identified in normal or salt stress conditions in the presence or absence of added 3-MA by the transcriptome profiles. Methods: Four days after NaCl and 3-MA treatment, the roots and the third leaves were collected respectively with every 10 of them being mixed as one biological replicate for each treatment. Every treatment had four biological replicates. The wheat root and leaves mRNA profiles were generated by deep sequencing, in triplicate, using Illumina GAIIx. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were analyzed at the transcript isoform level with two methods: Burrows–Wheeler Aligner (BWA) followed by ANOVA (ANOVA) and TopHat followed by Cufflinks. qRT–PCR validation was performed using TaqMan and SYBR Green assays. Results: The RNA-Seq data had high quality and reliable results were obtained from the transcriptome assembly. A high correlation between biological replicates was observed for all treatments, which indicated that the four biological replicates were reliable in this study. Based on the principal component analysis (PCA), a clear separation between the NaCl-treated group and controls could be observed. The Q30 percentage (sequences with sequencing error rate lower than 0.1%) was over 94%, and the average GC content of the RNA-seq reads was 55.46%. After removing the adaptor and low-quality sequence, each library received 68310810-83844286 clean reads. These clean reads were mapped to the reference genome with match ratios in the range of 93.6%-95.9%, and 120744 genes predicted from the genome were found to be expressed (with FPKM > 0), including 25180 annotated genes in wheat genome. 3-MA treatment shifted the transcriptome a salt-stressed wheat seedling. The up-regulated DEGs and DEMs were increased, and the down-regulated DEGs and DEMs were decreased in 3-MA-added plants under NaCl stress condition. The study may help us understand the mechanism for 3-MA mediated salt tolerance and provide a theoretical basis for autophagy regulated salt response in wheat seedlings. Conclusions: 3-MA treatment shifted the transcriptome a salt-stressed wheat seedling. The up-regulated DEGs and DEMs were increased, and the down-regulated DEGs and DEMs were decreased in 3-MA-added plants under NaCl stress condition. The study may help us understand the mechanism for 3-MA mediated salt tolerance and provide a theoretical basis for autophagy regulated salt response in wheat seedlings.

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