Project description:Turkey embryos are very sensitive to perturbations in energy metabolism because they have a wider hatching window than chicken embryos. Mortality of turkey embryos during late-term incubation is high relative to chickens, and many surviving hatchlings have compromised vitality. Intestinal maturation at hatch is also crucial to survival and post-hatch performance. The study of poultry embryo metabolism during the last stages of incubation is difficult due to many shifts and changes that occur in preparation for hatching. Microarray technology is suitable to study complex biological systems like avian late-term embryonic development. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to create a customized focused oligonucleotide microarray based on chicken genome sequences that could be used to study late-term avian metabolism and intestinal maturation, and use this array to survey turkey embryos gene expression from 20 days of incubation until hatch. The key features of this microarray are that all genes present have been annotated and gene spot replication (4) within each array chip. Microarray analysis was performed on liver, pectoral muscle, hatching muscle, and duodenum Keywords: time course, embryo development
Project description:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of vitrification on the miRNA transcriptome profile of porcine blastocysts and to compare the effects of the SOPS and Cryotop methods on miRNA profiles. The interactions of the miRNA data with previous gene expression data (Gonzalez-Plaza et al., 2023) from the same samples were also investigated. Embryos at the blastocyst stage (n=180) were selected for the experiment and divided into three experimental groups: blastocysts vitrified with the OC system (n=60), blastocysts vitrified with the SOPS system (n=60), and a control group consisting of fresh, nonvitrified blastocysts (n=60). After in vitro culture for 24 h, five pools of 8 viable embryos (n=40 embryos per group) were prepared for transcriptome analysis. Embryos were placed in sterile tubes with 5 µL of PBS, immediately immersed in LN2 and stored at -80 °C until microarray analysis.
Project description:Comparative transcriptomic analyses among in vivo (IVV) XB, in vivo (IVV) HB, parthenogenetic activation (PA) XB, and parthenogenetic activation (PA) HB were performed following a reference design.
Project description:Turkey embryos are very sensitive to perturbations in energy metabolism because they have a wider hatching window than chicken embryos. Mortality of turkey embryos during late-term incubation is high relative to chickens, and many surviving hatchlings have compromised vitality. Intestinal maturation at hatch is also crucial to survival and post-hatch performance. The study of poultry embryo metabolism during the last stages of incubation is difficult due to many shifts and changes that occur in preparation for hatching. Microarray technology is suitable to study complex biological systems like avian late-term embryonic development. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to create a customized focused oligonucleotide microarray based on chicken genome sequences that could be used to study late-term avian metabolism and intestinal maturation, and use this array to survey turkey embryos gene expression from 20 days of incubation until hatch. The key features of this microarray are that all genes present have been annotated and gene spot replication (4) within each array chip. Microarray analysis was performed on liver, pectoral muscle, hatching muscle, and duodenum This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Project description:IVP blastocysts exposed to hyperglycaemia during early phase of development, i.e from zygote to 8-16 cells stages. Genes expression analysis is done at day 7.5 (7 days of embryo culture). Total RNA form glucose treated blastocysts (4 replicates of 10 embryos each) and control treated blastocysts (4 replicates of 10 embryos each) were compared on a 2-color micro-array design and dye swap.