Differential Expression of miRNAs in Bovine Skeletal Muscle that Display Varying Degrees of the Dark-cutting Phenotype.

Identify specific genetic regulatory and signaling mechanisms that result in occurrence of “dark cutting meat” from beef carcasses in order to develop novel strategies for reducing incidence RNA-Seq was performed on total RNA that was extracted from muscle biopsies taken from a group of steers that expressed varying degrees of dark cutting in order to detect and profile miRNAs that were potentially associated with the dark-cutting phenotype.