Fig. 1

Global framework of the current study. We used 51 tissues from male Chinese Simmental beef cattle to study the expression specificity patterns through multifaceted analyses (tissue-specific expression, differentially expressed gene analysis, co-expression analysis, expression pattern analysis, housekeeping gene expression, etc.). Then, we performed conservation analysis and RT-qPCR validation for several identified candidate genes. The panel at the top shows the tissue samples. Tissues belonging to the same organ system are labeled with the same color