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Poultry Nutrition and Epigenetics

  • YU Xiaoqiong ,
  • ZHAO Guiping ,
  • LIU Ranran ,
  • ZHENG Maiqing ,
  • WEN Jie
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  • Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China

Received date: 2013-04-19

  Online published: 2013-09-16

Abstract

Over the past few decades, the theories of biological evolution founded by Darwin and genetics established by Mendelian laid the theoretical foundation for the poultry breeding and the improvement of breeding, which significantly improve the quality of poultry meat and enhance the poultry productivity. Genetic selection not only is able to dominate the parental gene, but also can transmit through successive generations. Mounting evidence suggests that environmental factors, such as nutritions play an important role in the modification of gene expression. However, epigenetics refers to the changes in gene expression that occurs without any change in DNA sequence, which has become an important subdiscipline within genetics. The article focused on the influence of poultry nutrition on DNA methylation, and the phenomenon that this influence can be successfully inherited by the offspring through the genetic remodeling of germ cells.

Cite this article

YU Xiaoqiong , ZHAO Guiping , LIU Ranran , ZHENG Maiqing , WEN Jie . Poultry Nutrition and Epigenetics[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2013 , 25(10) : 2192 -2201 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2013.10.002

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