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RNA-Seq Analysis of Differential Gene Expression in Electroporated Chick Embryonic Spinal Cord
Published on: November 1, 2014
Expression analysis of growth and energy regulation-associated genes in two divergent chicken strains
Sojeong Ka1, Carolyn Fitzsimmons, Lina Jacobsson
1Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|May 14, 2005
Abstract:
We have studied differential expression of genes using cDNA arrays in the hypothalamic region of two divergent chicken lines, which differ in body weight and feeding behavior. Several transcripts from genes in metabolic networks as well as from retroviruses were differentially expressed.
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