文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Chen, Anqi ¹ ; Zhao, Xiaoyu ⁴ ; Wen, Junhui ⁷ ; Zhao, Xiurong ¹ ; Wang, Gang ¹ ; Zhang, Xinye ¹ ; Ren, Xufang ¹ ; Zhang, Yalan ¹ ; Cheng, Xue ¹ ; Yu, Xiaofan ¹ ; Mei, Xiaohan ¹ ; Wang, Huie ² ; Guo, Menghan ¹ ; Jiang, Xiaoyu ¹ ; Wei, Guozhen ⁶ ; Wang, Xue ⁵ ; Jiang, Runshen ³ ; Guo, Xing ³ ; Ning, Zhonghua ¹ ; Qu, Lujiang ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.China Agr Univ, Coll Anim Sci & Technol, Natl Engn Lab Anim Breeding, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

2.Tarim Univ, Key Lab Protect & Utilizat Biol Resources Tarim Ba, Xinjiang Prod & Construction Corps, Alar 843300, Peoples R China

3.Anhui Agr Univ, Coll Anim Sci & Technol, Hefei 230036, Peoples R China

4.Xingrui Agr Stock Breeding, Baoding 072550, Hebei, Peoples R China

5.VVBK Anim Med Diagnost Technol Beijing Co Ltd, Beijing, Peoples R China

6.Qingliu Anim Husb Vet & Aquat Prod Ctr, Sanming, Peoples R China

7.Beijing Acad Agr & Forestry Sci, Inst Anim Husb & Vet Med, Beijing 100097, Peoples R China

关键词： chicken; beak shape; heritability; genome-wide association study

期刊名称：POULTRY SCIENCE （ 影响因子：3.8； 五年影响因子：4.1 ）

ISSN： 0032-5791

年卷期： 2024 年 103 卷 6 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： The bird beak is mainly functioned as feeding and attacking, and its shape has extremely important significance for survival and reproduction. In chickens, since beak shape could lead to some disadvantages including pecking and waste of feed, it is important to understand the inheritance of chicken beak shape. In the present study, we firstly established 4 indicators to describe the chicken beak shapes, including upper beak length (UL), lower beak length (LL), distance between upper and lower beak tips (DB) and upper beak curvature (BC). And then, we measured the 4 beak shape indicators as well as some production traits including body weight (BW), shank length (SL), egg weight (EW), eggshell strength (ES) of a layer breed, Rhode Island Red (RIR), in order to estimate genetic parameters of chicken beak shape. The heritabilities of UL and LL were 0.41 and 0.37, and the heritabilities of DB and BC were 0.22 and 0.21, indicating that beak shape was a highly or mediumly heritable. There were significant positive genetic and phenotypic correlations among UL, LL, and DB. And UL was positively correlated with body weight (BW18) and shank length (SL18) at 18 weeks of age in genetics, and DB was positively correlated with BC in terms of genetics and phenotype. We also found that layers of chicken cages played a role on beak shape, which could be attributed to the difference of lightness in different cage layers. By a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for the chicken UL, we identified 9 significant candidate genes associated with UL in RIR. For the variants with low minor allele frequencies (MAF <0.01) and outside of high linkage disequilibrium (LD) regions, we also conducted rare variant association studies (RVA) and GWAS to find the association between genotype and phenotype. We also analyzed transcriptomic data from multiple tissues of chicken embryos and revealed that all of the 9 genes were highly expressed in beak of chicken embryos, indicating their potential function for beak development. Our results provided the genetic foundation of chicken beak shape, which could help chicken breeding on beak related traits.