Duck / Anas platyrhynchos
Cultivated duck is an emerging cell-ag target. The first dedicated multi-omics characterization of duck embryonic stem cells for cultivated meat landed as a bioRxiv preprint in 2026 — see the inventory below. This page collects the fixed data artifacts relevant to cultivating duck cells, and will grow as the field’s data accumulates.
Duck embryonic stem cells & cultivated-meat characterization
The cluster’s anchoring entry is the first published multi-omics characterization of duck embryonic stem cells (ESCs) for cultivated-meat applications (Kusters, Mathieu, Nzekoue et al. 2026, bioRxiv). The study profiles 63 Illumina libraries (6.9 B paired-end reads) — RNA-seq aligned to Anas platyrhynchos reference GCF_015476345.1 (ZJU1.0) and WGS aligned to the T2T GCF_047663525.1 (IASCAAS Pekin Duck T2T) — and characterizes the nutritional profile of duck ESC biomass against conventional duck meat using AOAC and ISO methodology. Public muscle and liver tissue data are reused as conventional-duck reference (NCBI BioProjects PRJNA726590, PRJNA878639, PRJNA349262, PRJNA437527).
Complete data inventory
A curated snapshot. The preprint’s own data availability statement is the canonical living source for any new deposit accession.
| Study | Type | Tissue | Description | Size | Area of research |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-omics Characterization of Duck Embryonic Stem Cells for Cultivated Meat | RNA-seq + WGS + nutritional analysis | ESCs (whole biomass) | First multi-omics characterization of duck ESCs for cultivated meat (Kusters et al. 2026, bioRxiv); 63 Illumina libraries (6.9 B paired-end reads); RNA-seq aligned to GCF_015476345.1 (ZJU1.0) and WGS aligned to T2T GCF_047663525.1 (IASCAAS Pekin Duck T2T); nutritional profile by AOAC (950.46/981.10/960.39/920.153) + ISO 13903:2005; reuses four public muscle/liver BioProjects (PRJNA726590, PRJNA878639, PRJNA349262, PRJNA437527) as conventional-duck reference; no new public deposit named in the preprint | — | Cultivated-meat ESC characterization |
Further reading
- Atlases & functional genomics: FAANG in
Databases.md— the broader functional-annotation network for farmed-animal genomes, including avian species. - Sequence & expression repositories: GEO, SRA, Ensembl (Anas platyrhynchos genome assembly).
- Cross-species modeling tooling: TranscriptFormer and UCE in
Software.md— especially useful where labelled species data is sparse. - Related avian page: Chicken. Adjacent research areas: Cellular Engineering, Bioprocess Control.
- Reference substrates: HumanReference, CHOReference, CrossSpecies. AI/ML benchmarks: Benchmarks.