Keren Long, Ke Mao, Tiandong Che, Jinwei Zhang, Wanling Qiu, Yujie Wang, Qianzi Tang, Jideng Ma, Mingzhou Li, Xuewei Li
Animal domestication is a long-term, multistage process that results in modifications of many traits, especially the less aggressive behavior in domesticated animals. In this study, we used the Illumina RNA-seq to compare the transcriptome in brain frontal cortex between wild boar and Rongchang pig, a typical indigenous domestic pig in China, and revealed that 604 genes and 639 genes were specifically detected in wild boar and domesticated pig, respectively, with distinct functional characteristics that may be related to their respective environment...
March 13, 2018: Animal Science Journal, Nihon Chikusan Gakkaihō