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Thigh muscle metabolic response is linked to feed efficiency and meat characteristics in slow-growing chicken

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POULTRY SCIENCE
卷 102, 期 7, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.102741

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feed efficiency; meat characteristics; hub proteins; WGCNA; slow-growing chicken

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The Korat chicken is a Thai chicken breed with slow growth and relatively poor feed efficiency but high-quality meat. This study aims to understand the genetic basis for feed efficiency and meat characteristics of this breed by evaluating various traits and using proteomic analysis.
The Korat chicken (KR) is a slow-grow-ing Thai chicken breed with relatively poor feed effi-ciency (FE) but very tasty meat with high protein and low fat contents, and a unique texture. To enhance the competitiveness of KR, its FE should be improved. How-ever, selecting for FE has an unknown effect on meat characteristics. Thus, understanding the genetic basis underlying FE traits and meat characteristics is needed. In this study, 75 male KR birds were raised up to 10 wk of age. For each bird, the feed conversion ratio (FCR), residual feed intake (RFI), and physicochemical proper-ties, flavor precursors, and biological compounds in the thigh meat were evaluated. At 10 wk of age, thigh mus-cle samples from 6 birds (3 with high FCR and 3 with low FCR values) were selected, and their proteomes were investigated using a label-free proteomic method. Weighted gene coexpression network analysis (WGCNA) was used to screen the key protein modulesand pathways. The WGCNA results revealed that FE and meat characteristics significantly correlated with the same protein module. However, the correlation was unfavorable; improving FE may result in a decrease in meat quality through the alteration in biological pro-cesses including glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, metabolic pathway, carbon metabolism, biosynthesis of amino acids, pyruvate metabolism, and protein processing in the endoplasmic reticulum. The hub proteins of the significant module (TNNT1, TNNT3, TNNI2, TNNC2, MYLPF, MYH10, GADPH, PGK1, LDHA, and GPI) were also identified to be associated with energy metabo-lism, and muscle growth and development. Given that the same proteins and pathways are present in FE and meat characteristics but in opposite directions, selection practices for KR should simultaneously consider both trait groups to maintain the high meat quality of KR while improving FE.

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