Developmental changes in IGF-I and MyoG gene expression and their association with meat traits in sheep
, “Developmental changes in IGF-I and MyoG gene expression and their association with meat traits in sheep”, vol. 13, pp. 2772-2783, 2014.
In the present study, real time-polymerase chain reaction was applied to analyze the expression of IGF-I and MyoG genes in Hu sheep longissimus dorsi at different growth stages and their association with meat traits. Expression of the IGF-I gene in Hu sheep differed significantly between males and females at the two day-old (0.01 0.05) between males and females at any growth stage in expression of the MyoG gene. MyoG gene expression in male longissimus muscles tended to be higher than that of females at all growth stages, except for the six month-old stage.
