The blood transcriptome of musk deer under heat stress condition reveals the regulatory mechanism of genes to maintain homeostasis metabolism
Heat stress has a significant adverse impact on both livestock and poultry production, posing a considerable challenge to the artificial breeding of forest musk deer. However, there is a lack of studies on the heat stress of forest musk deer, so it is necessary to understand the effects of temperature and humidity index (THI) variation on these animals. Therefore, in according to the local climate characteristics, blood samples were collected during three periods (April, June and July) for transcriptome sequencing to reveal the regulatory mechanism of genes to maintain homeostasis metabolism in different THI.