The Domestication of Wild Boar Could Result in a Relaxed Selection for Maintaining Olfactory Capacity
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Sampling Collection
2.2. Transcriptional Profiling of Olfactory Mucosa
2.2.1. RNA Isolation
2.2.2. Data Processing and Differential Expression Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Sample | #Input Reads | %Mapped Reads | #Mapped Reads | #Mean Mapped Reads Per Type | s.d. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PIG_1 | 20,663,211 | 86.85 | 17,947,762 | 17,114,785 | 2,111,330 |
PIG_2 | 20,909,420 | 89.35 | 18,682,567 | ||
PIG_3 | 17,359,635 | 84.76 | 14,714,027 | ||
SS_1 | 26,605,201 | 86.36 | 22,976,252 | 19,000,282 | 3,580,300 |
SS_2 | 20,012,531 | 89.91 | 17,993,267 | ||
SS_3 | 17,692,668 | 90.61 | 16,031,327 | ||
SM_1 | 22,432,413 | 89.27 | 20,025,415 | 17,474,470 | 2,271,444 |
SM_2 | 17,523,002 | 89.43 | 15,670,821 | ||
SM_3 | 18,126,543 | 92.28 | 16,727,174 |
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Buglione, M.; Rivieccio, E.; Aceto, S.; Paturzo, V.; Biondi, C.; Fulgione, D. The Domestication of Wild Boar Could Result in a Relaxed Selection for Maintaining Olfactory Capacity. Life 2024, 14, 1045. https://doi.org/10.3390/life14081045
Buglione M, Rivieccio E, Aceto S, Paturzo V, Biondi C, Fulgione D. The Domestication of Wild Boar Could Result in a Relaxed Selection for Maintaining Olfactory Capacity. Life. 2024; 14(8):1045. https://doi.org/10.3390/life14081045
Chicago/Turabian StyleBuglione, Maria, Eleonora Rivieccio, Serena Aceto, Vincenzo Paturzo, Carla Biondi, and Domenico Fulgione. 2024. "The Domestication of Wild Boar Could Result in a Relaxed Selection for Maintaining Olfactory Capacity" Life 14, no. 8: 1045. https://doi.org/10.3390/life14081045