Extensive sheep and goat production: The role of novel technologies towards sustainability and animal welfare

SR Silva, L Sacarrão-Birrento, M Almeida, DM Ribeiro… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary New technologies have been recognized as valuable in controlling,
monitoring, and managing farm animal activities. It makes it possible to deepen the …

Applications of omics technology for livestock selection and improvement

D Chakraborty, N Sharma, S Kour, SS Sodhi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Conventional animal selection and breeding methods were based on the phenotypic
performance of the animals. These methods have limitations, particularly for sex-limited traits …

A promising resilience parameter for breeding: the use of weight and feed trajectories in growing pigs

W Gorssen, C Winters, R Meyermans… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Springer
Background Increasing resilience is a priority in modern pig breeding. Recent research
shows that general resilience can be quantified via variability in longitudinal data. The …

Capturing wild animal welfare: a physiological perspective

M Beaulieu - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Affective states, such as emotions, are presumably widespread across the animal kingdom
because of the adaptive advantages they are supposed to confer. However, the study of the …

Breeding for disease resilience: opportunities to manage polymicrobial challenge and improve commercial performance in the pig industry

X Bai, GS Plastow - CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2022 - Springer
Disease resilience, defined as an animal's ability to maintain productive performance in the
face of infection, provides opportunities to manage the polymicrobial challenge common in …

Integrated Omics analysis of pig muscle metabolism under the effects of dietary Chlorella vulgaris and exogenous enzymes

D Coelho, D Ribeiro, H Osório, AM de Almeida… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Monogastric feeding is dependent on costly conventional feedstuffs. Microalgae such as
Chlorella vulgaris are a sustainable alternative; however, its recalcitrant cell wall hinders …

Domestic animal proteomics in the 21st century: A global retrospective and viewpoint analysis

AM Almeida, SA Ali, F Ceciliani, PD Eckersall… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Animal production and health are of significant economic importance, particularly regarding
the world food supply. Animal and veterinary sciences have evolved immensely in the past …

Impact of water scarcity on dryland sheep meat production and quality: Key recovery and resilience strategies

OC Chikwanha, S Mupfiga, BR Olagbegi… - Journal of Arid …, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is among key the challenges facing sheep production in the arid and semiarid
areas, and is predicted to worsen in future. Despite sheep in dry areas being capable of …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrigenomics in livestock sector and its human-animal interface-a review

Z ul Haq, A Saleem, AA Khan, MA Dar… - Veterinary and Animal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer
now outnumber all other health ailments in humans globally due to abrupt changes in …

A review of genetic resources and trends of omics applications in donkey research: Focus on China

MZ Khan, W Chen, X Wang, H Liang, L Wei… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Omics methodologies, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics,
lipidomics and microbiomics, have revolutionized biological research by allowing …