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).

Follicle development & regulatory genomics

A second axis of duck data captures the epigenetic dynamics of follicular development: a multi-omics map of follicular granulosa cells across seven follicle stages that integrates RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, CUT&Tag, and Hi-C into a three-dimensional cis-regulatory atlas of transcription and chromatin dynamics (PRJNA1254901). Reproductive and follicular biology sits upstream of avian cell sourcing; the chromatin-accessibility and 3D-genome layers make this a regulatory-genomics reference for cultivated-duck cell-line characterization.

Complete data inventory

A curated snapshot. The preprint’s own data availability statement is the canonical living source for any new deposit accession.

Study	Paper	Data	Type	Tissue	Description	Size	Area of research
Multi-omics Characterization of Duck Embryonic Stem Cells for Cultivated Meat	preprint	none named	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
Multi-omics data of follicular granulosa cells in duck	DOI	PRJNA1254901	RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, CUT&Tag, Hi-C	Ovarian follicle (granulosa cells)	Multi-omics map of duck follicular granulosa cells across seven follicle stages; integrates RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, CUT&Tag, and Hi-C into a three-dimensional cis-regulatory atlas of transcription and chromatin dynamics in avian follicle development	—	Follicle development & regulatory genomics
Single-cell transcriptomics reveal mechanisms of skeletal muscle differentiation across duck embryonic development	DOI	CRA037446	scRNA-seq	Skeletal muscle (embryonic)	Single-cell transcriptomic atlas of duck skeletal muscle across embryonic development, tracing myogenic progenitors to myofibers and a LEF1+-mediated slow-to-fast fiber-type transdifferentiation program conserved across avian and mammalian datasets; duck scRNA-seq at NGDC/GSA CRA037446	—	Myogenesis & fiber-type differentiation
Transcriptome RNA sequencing reveals that circular RNAs are abundantly expressed in embryonic breast muscle of duck	DOI	GSE152947	RNA-seq (circRNA)	Breast (pectoralis) muscle, embryonic	circRNA profiling of Shan Ma duck pectoralis at E13 (undifferentiated) and E19 (differentiated myoblasts); 16,622 circRNAs identified, 260 differentially expressed, with circGAS2-2 shown to promote myoblast proliferation; raw data at GEO GSE152947	—	Myogenesis & non-coding RNA regulation

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.