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THE EFFECTS OF HEAT STRESS ON THE TRANSCRIPTOMICS OF DAY28 SPLEENS IN ROSS 708 AND ILLINOIS BROILERS by Amanda Wagner A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the University of Delaware in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Animal Science Fall 2016 © 2016 Amanda Wagner All Rights Reserved ProQuest Number:10241718 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. ProQuest 10241718 Published by ProQuest LLC ( 2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 - 1346 THE EFFECTS OF HEAT STRESS ON THE TRANSCRIPTOMICS OF DAY28 SPLEENS IN ROSS 708 AND ILLINOIS BROILERS by Amanda Wagner Approved: __________________________________________________________ Carl Schmidt, Ph.D. Professor in charge of thesis on behalf of the Advisory Committee Approved: __________________________________________________________ Limin Kung, Jr., Ph.D. Chair of the Department of Animal and Food Sciences Approved: __________________________________________________________ Mark Rieger, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Approved: __________________________________________________________ Ann L. Ardis, Ph.D. Senior Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Carl Schmidt for providing me with the opportunity to work on this project and answering any and all questions during my time as a graduate student. I would also like to thank Dr. Jason Gleghorn, Dr. Robert Dyer and, Dr. Marlene Emara for serving on my committee and providing insightful comments throughout the writing process. I would like to thank all of the members of the Schmidt lab for their help throughout my time as a graduate student. Last but certainly not least, a huge thank you to my parents, family, and friends. They consistently encouraged and supported me from start to finish during my time in the Master’s program at the University of Delaware. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................ vi LIST OF FIGURES ....................................................................................................... ix ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................. xii Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................. 1 2 LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................................... 8 3 HYPOTHESIS AND OBJECTIVES ............................................................... 15 4 MATERIALS AND METHODS ..................................................................... 17 4.1 Animal Rearing, Experimental Design, and Tissue Collection ............... 17 4.2 Ethics Statement ...................................................................................... 18 4.3 RNA Extraction ....................................................................................... 19 4.4 Library Preparation and Sequencing ....................................................... 20 4.5 Transcriptomic Analysis .......................................................................... 21 4.6 Analysis Descriptions .............................................................................. 22 5 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ....................................................................... 25 5.1 Differential Expression Analysis Results ................................................ 25 5.2 RTE Analysis using Gene Ontology (GO) and WebGIVI ...................... 35 5.3 RTE Analysis of Ross 708 Control genes with the iTerm Spleen .......... 36 5.4 RTE Analysis of Ross 708 Control genes with AmiGO2 and WebGIVI ................................................................................................. 38 5.5 RTE Analysis of Ross 708 Heat-Stressed genes with the iTerm Spleen 43 5.6 RTE Analysis of Ross 708 Heat-Stressed genes with AmiGO2 and WebGIVI ................................................................................................. 47 5.7 RTE Analysis of Illinois Control genes with AmiGO2 and WebGIVI ... 55 5.8 RTE Analysis of Illinois Control genes with the iTerm Spleen .............. 57 5.9 RTE Analysis of Illinois Heat-Stressed genes with AmiGO2 and WebGIVI ................................................................................................. 61 5.10 RTE Analysis of Illinois Heat-stressed genes with the iTerm Spleen ..... 65 iv 6 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................ 77 7 FUTURE WORK ............................................................................................. 80 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................. 88 Appendix A DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION AND RELATIVE TISSUE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS PROTOCOLS ..................................................... 95 A.1 Differential Expression Analysis Protocol .............................................. 95 A.2 Relative Tissue Expression Analysis Protocol ........................................ 96 B DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION RAW DATA TABLES FOR ROSS AND ILLINOIS CONTROL AND HEAT-STRESSED GROUPS ........................ 101 C RAW DATA TABLES FOR THE RELATIVE TISSUE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS FOR THE ROSS AND ILLINOIS CONTROL AND HEAT- STRESSED GROUPS .................................................................................... 105 D PERMISSION LETTERS .............................................................................. 217 E AACUC APPROVAL FORM ........................................................................ 218 v LIST OF TABLES Table 1: The number of samples used in both control and heat-stressed groups for the Ross 708 and Illinois broiler lines. The total number of spleen samples used in this experiment is also provided and was established after a final RNA quality check. .............................................................. 20 Table 2: Bird identification numbers that were used in Differential Expression analysis for Ross 708 D28 Control Liver samples compared to Ross 708 D28 Control Spleen samples. Each row represents a randomly selected broiler for this analysis with a total of nine samples in the spleen and seven in the liver. ................................................................... 26 Table 3: Bird identification numbers that were used in Differential Expression analysis for D28 Ross 708 D28 Heat-Stressed Liver samples compared to Ross 708 D28 Heat-Stressed Spleen samples. Each row represents a randomly selected broiler for this analysis with a total of ten samples in the spleen and seven samples in the liver. ....................... 27 Table 4: The average spleen weight and body mass under control and heat- stressed conditions measured in grams for both Ross 708 and Illinois broilers at D7, D21, D28 and D42. There was no statistical significance found between either line under control or heat-stressed conditions when the means of the absolute spleen weight and body mass were evaluated. ............................................................................... 34 Table 5: The top 10 biological processes found in the gene ontology database, AmiGO2 without the Bonferroni correction for the comparison of Ross 708 broilers Control RTE genes with the iTerm Spleen. The biological processes are sorted based on p-value of <0.05. .................... 37 Table 6: 235 enriched genes found in the Ross 708 control RTE analysis were inserted into AmiGO2 and the top 10 biological processes found without the Bonferroni correction. The biological processes were sorted based on a p-value of <0.05. The red boxes signify similar processes containing identical cytokines and differing by one factor found in the regulation of T cell differentiation process. ........................ 40 vi Table 7: Seven of the ten genes found by the gene ontology analysis and relevant to D28 spleen data from the Ross 708 heat-stressed RTE in comparison with the iTerm Spleen (485 genes). ..................................... 45 Table 8: 225 genes found enriched in D28 Ross 708 heat-stressed RTE were inserted into AmiGO2. The top 10 biological processes were sorted based on a p-value of <0.05 with a disabled Bonferroni correction. The process, cell communication was found to have thirty eight genes containing pertinent information to the present study. ............................ 48 Table 9: 249 genes enriched in the Illinois Control RTE genes were assessed in AmiGO2. The top 10 biological processes were selected based on p- value <0.05 without the Bonferroni correction. Each category was then evaluated using the text mining tool WebGIVI. .............................. 56 Table 10: 249 enriched Illinois Control RTE genes were compared to the iTerm Spleen (485 genes) using Venn diagram. Six genes were found in common between the two gene lists and further