Integrated Bulk and Single-Nucleus Transcriptomics Characterizes the Developmental and Regional Specialization of Chicken Abdominal Fat-Associated Tissue
Excessive abdominal fat deposition reduces feed efficiency and edible carcass yield in chickens, yet its developmental and regional specialization remains poorly understood. We generated 93 bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) libraries from 15 fat-associated anatomical regions at embryonic day 16 (E16) and 16 regions at 2 we...