Figure 1.

microRNA/mRNA profiling and regulatory fat metabolism network (A) Screening for miRNA associated with early-lactation and non-lactation stages. Mammary tissue used was from 3 goats at each stage of lactation. The expression of 18s rRNA was used as a normalization control. (B) Illumina de novo RNA sequencing of mRNA in the early-lactation and non-lactating samples All experiments were run in duplicate and repeated 3 times. Values are presented as means ± standard errors, *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01. (C) Target genes associated with the lipid transport and metabolism category of KOG in early lactation.