Turkey / Meleagris gallopavo
Cultivated turkey is an early-stage cell-ag target with little dedicated computational data so far. This page collects what exists and will grow as the field’s data accumulates.
Complete data inventory
A curated snapshot. NCBI accessions are the canonical living source — fetch the linked accession for current sample counts, file sizes, and availability.
| Study | Paper | Data | Type | Tissue | Description | Size | Area of research |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satellite-cell clone heterogeneity during differentiation in turkey pectoralis major | DOI | PRJNA1280141 | RNA-seq (clonal) | Pectoralis major (satellite-cell clones) | Transcriptomes of individual satellite-cell clones from one turkey p. major after 48 h differentiation, classed as early (fast-growing) vs late (slow-growing); >1,400 DEGs; MSTN upregulated in early clones, FGFBP1 in late (Yimiletey et al. 2025, Poultry Science) | — | Turkey satellite-cell heterogeneity |
| Heterogeneity of satellite-cell populations from an individual turkey pectoralis major | DOI | PRJNA1196520 | RNA-seq (clonal) | Pectoralis major (satellite-cell clones) | RNA-seq of fast- vs slow-growing satellite-cell clones from the same p. major after 72 h proliferation; >5,300 DEGs; early clones enriched for muscle-development genes, late clones for ECM / niche / cytokine signaling (Yu et al. 2025, Frontiers in Physiology) | — | Turkey satellite-cell heterogeneity |
| Transcriptome response of differentiating turkey satellite cells to thermal challenge | DOI | PRJNA842679 | RNA-seq | Pectoralis major satellite cells | Satellite cells from fast-growing commercial (Nicholas, NCT) and slower research-line (Randombred Control Line 2, RBC2) turkeys proliferated at 38 °C then differentiated at 33/38/43 °C; RNA-seq DEGs isolate cold- and heat-stress responses in muscle regeneration and sarcomere organization (Reed et al. 2022, Genes) | — | Thermal stress / satellite-cell differentiation |
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 (Meleagris gallopavo 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.
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