We are delighted to present the inaugural Frontiers in Veterinary Science 'Women in Animal Nutrition and Metabolism 2021” series of article collections.

At present, less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. Long-standing biases and gender stereotypes are discouraging girls and women away from science-related fields, and STEM research in particular. Science and gender equality are, however, essential to ensure sustainable development as highlighted by UNESCO. In order to change traditional mindsets, gender equality must be promoted, stereotypes defeated, and girls and women should be encouraged to pursue STEM careers.

Therefore, Frontiers in Veterinary Science is proud to offer this platform to promote the work of female scientists, across all fields of Animal Nutrition and Metabolism.

The work presented here highlights the diversity of research performed across the entire breadth of Animal Nutrition and Metabolism research and presents advances in theory, experiment, and methodology with applications to compelling problems.

The field of Animal Nutrition and Metabolism includes very diverse topics that go from ingestion and feeding choices, to biological bases of animal nutrition and metabolism, including the effect of foods and food compounds in physiology, as well as metabolic disorders resulting from food intake or nutrient imbalance. In the last years, with the advance of different analytical techniques, the knowledge about nutrition and metabolism increased. Moreover, the use of different types of samples from invasive and non-invasive origin allowed the clarification of different nutritional and metabolic processes, both when animals are used for the study of specific species or as models for humans. Another important point, that emerged in the last few years, is animal wellbeing and animal production in a way that can guarantee ecological sustainability. The focus in ruminant digestion as a source of greenhouse gases resulted in an increase in research about nutritional approaches aimed at minimizing the effect of these species.

This section welcomes submission of Retrospective and Prospective studies, Clinical trials, Cross-sectional studies, Cohort/ longitudinal studies, Case Reports, Case series, Review articles, Metanalyses and Systematic Reviews about all aspects of Animal Nutrition and Metabolism. Due to the relevance of biomarkers of nutrition and metabolism, this Research Topic also welcome results in that area, particularly biomarkers fount in non-invasive samples (such as saliva, urine, hair, etc.).

Please note: to be considered for this collection, the first or last author should be a researcher who identifies as a woman.

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