About this Research Topic
Animal nutrition is extremely important in maintaining acceptable performance of domestic animals and aquaculture specimens. An optimal and balanced nutritional program should ensure adequate intake of ingredients (amino acids, vitamins, fatty acids, carbohydrates and minerals) for each animal species in order to keep the organism's biological processes running, maintain homeostasis and keep an overall healthy status. Research in this area is of key importance in order to guarantee animal welfare and health and insure meat quality for human consumption. Besides, the application of high throughput technologies such as omics approaches will provide a better understanding of nutritional traits on the animal's metabolism providing new insights into the metabolic physiological mechanisms at the molecular and cellular levels.
This research topic focuses on animal nutrition, the development of new alternatives and the use of new ingredients in animal diets and how it might affect welfare, health and meat quality. Submissions are encouraged to correlate nutritional traits with the metabolic physiology, providing a better knowledge of the nutritional regulation of the animal's metabolism. A special focus on the use of omics technologies such as metabolomic, proteomics, lipidomics, and genomics will be given to better characterise the effects of nutrients on the animal's metabolic pathways.
Studies in the format of Original Research, Reviews, Mini-Reviews and Opinion articles are welcome.
Abstract submission is not mandatory, the Guest Editors encourage all interested researchers to submit their manuscript to the project even without submitting an abstract beforehand.
This research topic focuses on animal nutrition, the development of new alternatives and the use of new ingredients in animal diets and how it might affect welfare, health and meat quality. Submissions are encouraged to correlate nutritional traits with the metabolic physiology, providing a better knowledge of the nutritional regulation of the animal's metabolism. A special focus on the use of omics technologies such as metabolomic, proteomics, lipidomics, and genomics will be given to better characterise the effects of nutrients on the animal's metabolic pathways.
Studies in the format of Original Research, Reviews, Mini-Reviews and Opinion articles are welcome.
Abstract submission is not mandatory, the Guest Editors encourage all interested researchers to submit their manuscript to the project even without submitting an abstract beforehand.
Keywords: Metabolic pathways, Animal metabolism, Animal nutrition, Animal welfare, Meat quality, Animal health, Omics
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