title: A tool for sheep product quality: custom microarrays from public databases.
abstract: Milk and dairy products are an essential food and an economic resource in many countries. Milk component synthesis and secretion by the mammary gland involve expression of a large number of genes whose nutritional regulation remains poorly defined. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the genomic influence on milk quality and synthesis by comparing two sheep breeds with different milking attitude (Sarda and Gentile di Puglia) using sheep-specific microarray technology. From sheep ESTs deposited at NCBI, we have generated the first annotated microarray developed for sheep with a coverage of most of the genome.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Produzioni Animali, Università della Tuscia, 01100, Viterbo, Italy. bongiorni@unitus.it
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bongiorni
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chillemi
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Prosperini
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bueno
authors.forename: Alessio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valentini
authors.forename: Lorraine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pariset
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003611:Dairy Products / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D007774:Lactation / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D008892:Milk / Q000592:standards*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods / Q000662:veterinary*; D012756:Sheep / Q000235:genetics