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Improving immune competence: screening for new parameters describing the innate immune status in
chicken
Fanny Calenge, Pascale Quéré, Sascha Trapp, Sandrine Grasteau, Elisabeth Duval, Irène Gabriel, Bertrand Bed’Hom
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Fanny Calenge, Pascale Quéré, Sascha Trapp, Sandrine Grasteau, Elisabeth Duval, et al.. Improving immune competence: screening for new parameters describing the innate immune status in chicken.
8. European Symposium on Poultry Genetics (ESPG), Sep 2013, Venise, Italy. �hal-01193926�
IMPROVING IMMUNE COMPETENCE: SCREENING FOR NEW PARAMETERS DESCRIBING THE INNATE IMMUNE STATUS IN CHICKEN
F. CALENGE1,2*, P. QUÉRÉ3,4, S. TRAPP3,4, S. GRASTEAU5, E. LE BIHAN-DUVAL5, I. GABRIEL5, AND B. BED’HOM1,2
INTRODUCTION
Introducing new parameters related to immune competence in selection programs could counterbalance some of the deleterious consequences on health and welfare of the intense selection conducted so far for chicken production- related traits. An ongoing project, described below, is aiming at both developing non invasive and rapid methods to describe innate immunity (i.e. by using whole blood samples) and at describing the correlations of innate immunity with digestive efficiency and gut microbiota composition.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
HOST GENETICS
Group D+
HIGH DIGESTIBILITY
Group D-
LOW DIGESTIBILITY
MEASURING GUT MICROBIOTA COMPOSITION Will differences in microbiota composition previously demonstrated between lines D+
and D- be confirmed between these groups with16S rDNApyrosequencing?
GUT MICROBIOTA COMPOSITION
Microbiota composition
n°1
Microbiota composition
n°2
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MEASURING INNATE IMMUNITY
INNATE IMMUNITY
Immune
parameters 1
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parameters 2ImmuneCommercial broiler line ANIMAL MATERIAL
Two lines with divergent digestive efficiencies selected from a commercial broiler line were crossed to produce AIL. Two-hundred AIL will be screened for their digestive efficiency and divided into two groups of 30 animals with contrasted digestibilities (groups D+/D-) .
Line D+ Line D-
AIL
Advanced Intercross Lines
DIGESTIVE EFFICIENCY
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CALCULATING CORRELATIONS
1 INRA. UMR1313 Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative. Domaine de Vilvert. 78352 Jouy-en-Josas. France
2 INRA. UMR1313 AgroParisTech. Domaine de Vilvert. 78352 Jouy-en-Josas. France
3 INRA. UMR1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique. 37380 Nouzilly. France
4 INRA. UMR1282 Université François Rabelais. 37000 Tours. France
5 INRA. UR83 Unité de Recherches Avicoles. 37380 Nouzilly. France
MEASURING INNATE IMMUNITY Are parameters describing innate immunity differing between both groups? Quantification of innate immune gene expression in whole blood and of blood leucocyte and thrombocyte populations.
CONCLUSION
This descriptive project will allow a better understanding of the complex interactions of innate immmunity with gut microbiota and digestibility. Following projects will assess which of the parameters describing innate immunity or gut microbiota composition are predictive of the animal’s immune competence after challenges with pathogens. On the other hand, the role of host genetics will be investigated to identify host genes predicting the immune competence, which could be selected to produce chicken with improved immune competence.
CALCULATING CORRELATIONS How are parameters describing innate immunity, digestive efficiency and gut microbiota composition correlated between bothgoups?
Do these correlations reveal potential interactions between these traits?