Gene expression analysis by RNA-sequencing of Longissimus dorsi muscle of pigs fed diets with differing lipid contents.
ABSTRACT. We examined the effect of lipid content in the diet on the transcriptome of the Longissimus dorsi muscle in pigs. Our objective was to examine changes at the molecular level affecting economically relevant meat quality characteristics such as intramuscular fat deposition and fatty acid profile. The treatments consisted of isoproteic and isoenergetic diets with differing lipid contents due to addition of rice bran. The control diet (T0) was a normal basic diet and the test diet (T15) had 15% rice bran.