The differentially expressed genes of the Taihe silky fowl chicken in muscle samples were identified by transcriptome analysis.

Abstract

(A) The volcano plot represented the DEGs identified in the BB-sfc compared with BB-bfc chicken breeds using the DESeq2 method. The X-axis means the change of gene multiplicity (log2 FoldChange), and the Y axis indicates the significance level of the difference (-log10 Adjust P-value). The red and blue dots showed the significantly up- and down-regulated DEGs, respectively. (B) The heatmap of DEGs between BB-sfc and BB-bfc breed chickens was performed by hierarchical clustering analysis. (C) RNA libraries of BB-sfc and BB-bfc presented obvious differences by two-dimensional PCA analysis. (D) The integrated network presented the interaction relationship of DEGs in Taihe Black-bone silky fowl chicken.</p