Summary
Climate change is an imminent threat to livestock production. One adaptation strategy is selection for heat tolerance. While it is established that the <i>ATP1A1</i> gene and its product play an important role in the response to many stressors, there has been no attempt to characterize the sequence or to perform expression profiling of the gene in production animals. We undertook a field experiment to compare the expression profiles of <i>ATP1A1</i> in heat-tolerant Vechur and Kasaragod cattle (<i>Bos taurus indicus</i>) with the profile of a heat-susceptible crossbreed (<i>B. t. taurus</i> × <i>B. t. indicus</i>). The cattle were exposed to heat stress while on pasture in the hot summer season. The environmental stress was quantified using the temperature humidity index (THI), while the h
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