Influence of Litter Birth Weight Phenotype (LBWP) on transcriptome of D30 embryos and placental tissues using RNAseq

It is possible to identify an extreme population of sows in every herd that consistently gives birth to low birth weight piglets, irrespective of the litter size given. A sow related phenotype with low litter birth weight expressed in the piglets and the molecular mechanism behind is largely unknown. In this project, effort using next generation sequencing platform identified differential transcriptome markers expressed in embryos and placental tissues from a purebred Large White maternal line with low and high litter birth weight.