Liver RNA-Seq data of male and female suckling lambs

Because of the central role of the liver in numerous physiological processes and its possible relation with quality carcass traits in suckling lambs, and considering that female lambs have higher carcass fatness levels, this experiment has analyzed the liver transcriptome of 12 suckling lambs (slaughter age: +/- 25 days), including six males and six females. RNA was extracted from the liver tissue of the lambs at the time of slaughter following a standard protocol. The RNA integrity value was calculated using the Agilent 2,100 Bioanalyzer equipment (Agilent Technologies, CA, USA). cDNA libraries were sequenced to a minimum depth of 30 million paired-end reads, generating 150 bp stranded paired-end reads using an Illumina Novaseq 6,000 system.