“…PPAR signaling pathway has long been considered important for fatty acid metabolism and meat quality in mammals (He et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2016), genes of which are involved in three biological processes: lipogenesis, fatty acid transport and fatty acid oxidation, that have been reported to associate with IMF deposition. The DEGs we obtained from our experiment are all involved in the three biological processes: (1) fatty acid transport (FAT/CD36, FABP1, FABP3, FABP5, ACSL1, ACSBG2, and LPL) (Bonen et al, 2004;Campbell et al, 2004;Jiang and Li, 2006;Luo et al, 2009;Ellis et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2011;Serao et al, 2011;Widmann et al, 2011;Jeong et al, 2015;, (2) fatty acid oxidation (CPT1A, CPT1B, ACAA1, ACADM, and ACADL) (Kim et al, 2000;Zha et al, 2005;Wu et al, 2013;Puig-Oliveras et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2014;Chen et al, 2017;Qiu et al, 2017;, (3) lipogenesis (SCD) (Wang et al, 2013(Wang et al, , 2015Ros-Freixedes et al, 2016). Compared with the Min pig group, four fatty acid transport-related genes (FAT/CD36, FABP1, ACSL1, and LPL) and five fatty acid oxidation-related genes (CPT1A, CPT1B, ACAA1, ACADM, and ACADL) were highly upregulated, and the lipogenesis-related gene (SCD) was downregulated in the Large White pig group (Fig.…”