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Transcriptional analysis of abdominal fat in chickens divergently selected on bodyweight at two ages reveals novel mechanisms controlling adiposity: validating visceral adipose tissue as a dynamic endocrine and metabolic organ

BACKGROUND: Decades of intensive genetic selection in the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) have enabled the remarkable rapid growth of today’s broiler (meat-type) chickens. However, this enhanced growth rate was accompanied by several unfavorable traits (i.e., increased visceral fatness,...

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Autores principales: Resnyk, C. W., Carré, W., Wang, X., Porter, T. E., Simon, J., Le Bihan-Duval, E., Duclos, M. J., Aggrey, S. E., Cogburn, L. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28814270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4035-5

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