A mini-atlas of gene expression for the domestic goat (Capra hircus)

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Edinburghen
cg.contributor.affiliationCentre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Healthen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Queenslanden
cg.contributor.donorBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorRoslin Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorMedical Research Council, United Kingdomen
cg.creator.identifierAppolinaire Djikeng: 0000-0001-9271-3419
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.01080en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1664-8021en
cg.journalFrontiers in Geneticsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL BREEDINGen
cg.subject.ilriBREEDSen
cg.subject.ilriGENETICSen
cg.subject.ilriGOATSen
cg.subject.ilriSMALL RUMINANTSen
cg.volume10en
dc.contributor.authorMuriuki, C.en
dc.contributor.authorBush, S.J.en
dc.contributor.authorSalavati, M.en
dc.contributor.authorMcCulloch, M.E.B.en
dc.contributor.authorLisowski, Z.M.en
dc.contributor.authorAgaba, Morrisen
dc.contributor.authorDjikeng, Appolinaireen
dc.contributor.authorHume, D.A.en
dc.contributor.authorClark, E.L.en
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-26T08:39:02Zen
dc.date.available2019-12-26T08:39:02Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/106334
dc.titleA mini-atlas of gene expression for the domestic goat (Capra hircus)en
dcterms.abstractGoats (Capra hircus) are an economically important livestock species providing meat and milk across the globe. They are of particular importance in tropical agri-systems contributing to sustainable agriculture, alleviation of poverty, social cohesion and utilisation of marginal grazing. There are excellent genetic and genomic resources available for goats, including a highly contiguous reference genome (ARS1). However, gene expression information is limited in comparison to other ruminants. To support functional annotation of the genome and comparative transcriptomics we created a mini-atlas of gene expression for the domestic goat. RNA-Seq analysis of 22 transcriptionally rich tissues and cell-types detected the majority (90%) of predicted protein-coding transcripts and assigned informative gene names to more than 1000 previously unannotated protein-coding genes in the current reference genome for goat (ARS1). Using network-based cluster analysis we grouped genes according to their expression patterns and assigned those groups of co-expressed genes to specific cell populations or pathways. We describe clusters of genes expressed in the gastro-intestinal tract and provide the expression profiles across tissues of a subset of genes associated with functional traits. Comparative analysis of the goat atlas with the larger sheep gene expression atlas dataset revealed transcriptional similarities between macrophage-associated signatures in the sheep and goats sampled in this study. The goat transcriptomic resource complements the large gene expression dataset we have generated for sheep and contributes to the available genomic resources for interpretation of the relationship between genotype and phenotype in small ruminants.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2019-11-04
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMuriuki, C., Bush, S.J., Salavati, M., McCulloch, M.E.B., Lisowski, Z.M., Agaba, M., Djikeng, A., Hume, D.A. and Clark, E.L. 2019. A mini-atlas of gene expression for the domestic goat (Capra hircus). Frontiers in Genetics 10:1080.en
dcterms.issued2019-11-04
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dcterms.subjectanimal breedingen
dcterms.subjectgeneticsen
dcterms.subjectgoatsen
dcterms.subjectsmall ruminantsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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