A Mini-Atlas of Gene Expression for the Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)

Muriuki, Charity and Bush, Stephen J. and Salavati, Mazdak and McCulloch, Mary E.B. and Lisowski, Zofia M. and Agaba, Morris and Djikeng, Appolinaire and Hume, David A. and Clark, Emily L. (2019) A Mini-Atlas of Gene Expression for the Domestic Goat (Capra hircus). Frontiers in Genetics, 10. ISSN 1664-8021

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Abstract

Goats (Capra hircus) are an economically important livestock species providing meat and milk across the globe. They are of particular importance in tropical agri-systems contributing to sustainable agriculture, alleviation of poverty, social cohesion, and utilisation of marginal grazing. There are excellent genetic and genomic resources available for goats, including a highly contiguous reference genome (ARS1). However, gene expression information is limited in comparison to other ruminants. To support functional annotation of the genome and comparative transcriptomics, we created a mini-atlas of gene expression for the domestic goat. RNA-Seq analysis of 17 transcriptionally rich tissues and 3 cell-types detected the majority (90%) of predicted protein-coding transcripts and assigned informative gene names to more than 1000 previously unannotated protein-coding genes in the current reference genome for goat (ARS1). Using network-based cluster analysis, we grouped genes according to their expression patterns and assigned those groups of coexpressed genes to specific cell populations or pathways. We describe clusters of genes expressed in the gastro-intestinal tract and provide the expression profiles across tissues of a subset of genes associated with functional traits. Comparative analysis of the goat atlas with the larger sheep gene expression atlas dataset revealed transcriptional similarities between macrophage associated signatures in the sheep and goats sampled in this study. The goat transcriptomic resource complements the large gene expression dataset we have generated for sheep and contributes to the available genomic resources for interpretation of the relationship between genotype and phenotype in small ruminants.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: West Bengal Archive > Medical Science
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Date Deposited: 10 Feb 2023 10:29
Last Modified: 11 Jul 2024 09:42
URI: http://article.stmacademicwriting.com/id/eprint/182

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