Go to Top Go to Bottom
Swine Nutrition and Feed Technology
Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences 2005;18(5): 682-685.
https://doi.org/10.5713/ajas.2005.682    Published online November 25, 2005.
Age-dependent Changes of Differential Gene Expression Profile in Backfat Tissue between Hybrids and Parents in Pigs
ZH. Q. Ren, Y. ZH. Xiong, CH. Y. Deng, B. Zuo, Y. G. Liu, M. G. Lei
Abstract
Large White, an introduced European pig breed, and Meishan, a Chinese indigenous pig breed, were hybridized directly and reciprocally and a total of 260 pigs, including purebreds, Large White and Meishan, and their hybrids, White횞Meishan (LM) and Meishan횞Large White (ML) pigs, were bred in our laboratory. The mRNA differential display PCR (DD-PCR) was used to detect the age-dependent changes of differential gene expression in backfat tissue between hybrids and parents. Some measures were taken to reduce the false positives in our experiment. Among the total of 2,686 bands obtained, 1,952 bands (about 72.67%) were reproducible and eight patterns (fifteen kinds) of gene expression were observed. The percentage of differentially expressed genes between hybrids and parents is 56.86% at the age of four months and 57.71% at the age of six months. This indicated that the differences of gene expression between hybrids and their parents were very obvious. U-test was used to compare the patterns of gene expression between the age of four and six months, and results showed that bands occurring in only one hybrid and bands displayed in one hybrid and one parent were significantly different at p<0.05, and bands visualized in only two hybrids were significantly different at p<0.01. These indicated that differential gene expression between hybrids and parents changed at different ages.
Keywords: Differential Gene Expression; Age-dependent Changes; Pig; DD-PCR; Backfat Tissue


Editorial Office
Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies(AAAP)
Room 708 Sammo Sporex, 23, Sillim-ro 59-gil, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08776, Korea   
TEL : +82-2-888-6558    FAX : +82-2-888-6559   
E-mail : editor@animbiosci.org               

Copyright © 2024 by Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies.

Developed in M2PI

Close layer
prev next