Chicken adaptive response to low energy diet: Main role of the hypothalamic lipid metabolism revealed by a phenotypic and multi-tissue transcriptomic approach

Production conditions of layer chicken can vary in terms of temperature or diet energy content compared to the controlled environment where pure-bred selection is undertaken. The aim of this study was to better understand the long-term effects of a 15%-energy depleted diet on egg-production, energy homeostasis and metabolism via a multi-tissue transcriptomic analysis.