ECOS Equine resilience and welfare in Climate change and stressful scenarios using Omic technologies and innovative low cost Sensors

ECOS will address resilience and welfare in HS and exercise stress conditions using horses as an ideal model for mammals, including humans. ECOS will apply an experimental design to dissect the different biological mechanisms of adaptation: genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic and metabolomic features will be identified for heat stress and adaptation. To opens the way to the full exploitation of omics analyses for the genetic, epigenetic and metabolomic characterization, deep phenotyping will be applied by using innovative new generation low-cost custom sensors for real-time detection of crucial physiological parameters to investigate exercise and HS response.