Bos grunniens Transcriptome or Gene expression. Bos grunniens

The whole-transcriptome profiles of the longissimus dorsi muscle (LD) and its adjacent intermuscular adipose tissues (AA) in the 0.5- and 2.5-year-old yaks were obtained to compare the DEGs in these two tissues between the two developmental stages. Then, the co-DEGs were obtained and considered as the DEGs involved in IMF deposition. Using clustering analysis and advanced visualization techniques, several genes and pathways involved in adipogenesis and lipogenesis were revealed. Finally, we constructed a comprehensive competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network on the basis of the co-DEGs between the LD and AA tissues to highlight the genes that are most likely to be involved with the IMF trait in yaks and analyzed to elucidate the IMF deposition-related genes.