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  1. Artificial insemination (AI) is a routine breeding technology in animal reproduction. Nevertheless, the temperature-sensitive nature and short fertile lifespan of ram sperm samples hamper its use in AI. In thi...

    Authors: Alejandro Jurado-Campos, Pedro Javier Soria-Meneses, María Arenas-Moreira, Carlos Alonso-Moreno, Virginia Rodríguez-Robledo, Ana Josefa Soler, José Julián Garde and María del Rocío Fernández-Santos
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:106
  2. Starch is a major component of carbohydrates and a major energy source for monogastric animals. Starch is composed of amylose and amylopectin and has different physiological functions due to its different stru...

    Authors: Xiaoqian Gao, Bing Yu, Jie Yu, Xiangbing Mao, Zhiqing Huang, Yuheng Luo, Junqiu Luo, Ping Zheng, Hui Yan, Jun He and Daiwen Chen
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:105
  3. Genome editing has been considered as powerful tool in agricultural fields. However, genome editing progress in cattle has not been fast as in other mammal species, for some disadvantages including long gestat...

    Authors: Gyeong-Min Gim, Kyeong-Hyeon Eom, Dong-Hyeok Kwon, Dae-Jin Jung, Dae-Hyun Kim, Jun-Koo Yi, Jae-Jung Ha, Ji-Hyun Lee, Seong-Beom Lee, Woo-Jae Son, Soo-Young Yum, Won-Wu Lee and Goo Jang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:103
  4. Serotonin is an important signaling molecule that regulates secretory and sensory functions in the gut. Gut microbiota has been demonstrated to affect serotonin synthesis in rodent models. However, how gut mic...

    Authors: Ziyu Liu, Yidan Ling, Yu Peng, Shuibing Han, Yuting Ren, Yujia Jing, Wenlu Fan, Yong Su, Chunlong Mu and Weiyun Zhu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:111
  5. Ginkgo biloba extract (GBE) is evidenced to be effective in the prevention and alleviation of metabolic disorders, including obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease. However, the role of GBE in alleviating fatt...

    Authors: Xinyue Yang, Depeng Li, Meihong Zhang, Yuqing Feng, Xiaolu Jin, Dan Liu, Yuming Guo and Yongfei Hu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:97
  6. Increasing resilience is a priority in modern pig breeding. Recent research shows that general resilience can be quantified via variability in longitudinal data. The collection of such longitudinal data on wei...

    Authors: Wim Gorssen, Carmen Winters, Roel Meyermans, Léa Chapard, Katrijn Hooyberghs, Steven Janssens, Abe Huisman, Katrijn Peeters, Han Mulder and Nadine Buys
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:101
  7. Previous investigations into the effect of dietary forage on calf performance have been inconsistent, and there is a paucity of information exploring the effect of age on the growth performance and rumination ...

    Authors: Jianxin Xiao, Tianyu Chen, Rong Peng, Gibson Maswayi Alugongo, Hui Yang, Muhammad Zahoor Khan, Shuai Liu, Yulin Ma, Jingjun Wang, Wei Wang, Yajing Wang, Shengli Li and Zhijun Cao
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:107
  8. Numerous researchers and institutions have been developing in ovo sexing technologies to improve animal welfare by identifying male embryos in an early embryonic stage and disposing of them before pain percept...

    Authors: Matthias Corion, Simão Santos, Bart De Ketelaere, Dragana Spasic, Maarten Hertog and Jeroen Lammertyn
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:102
  9. Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is one of the major constraints in animal production. Our previous study showed that piglets with IUGR are associated with abnormal bile acid (BA) metabolism. This study ...

    Authors: Yang Liu, Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Sujuan Ding, Qian Zhu, Francois Blachier, Zugong Yu, Haijun Gao and Xiangfeng Kong
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:99
  10. Genotype-by-sequencing has been proposed as an alternative to SNP genotyping arrays in genomic selection to obtain a high density of markers along the genome. It requires a low sequencing depth to be cost effe...

    Authors: Oscar González-Recio, Adrián López-Catalina, Ramón Peiró-Pastor, Alicia Nieto-Valle, Monica Castro and Almudena Fernández
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:98
  11. During mammalian pre-implantation embryonic development (PED), the process of maternal-to-zygote transition (MZT) is well orchestrated by epigenetic modification and gene sequential expression, and it is relat...

    Authors: Penghui Fu, Du Zhang, Chunyan Yang, Xiang Yuan, Xier Luo, Haiying Zheng, Yanfei Deng, Qingyou Liu, Kuiqing Cui, Fei Gao and Deshun Shi
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:94
  12. Grape and winery by-products have nutritional values for cattle and also contain functional compounds like phenols, which not only bind to protein but can also directly affect microbiota and their function in ...

    Authors: Ratchaneewan Khiaosa-ard, Mubarik Mahmood, Elsayed Mickdam, Cátia Pacífico, Julia Meixner and Laura-Sophie Traintinger
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:92
  13. The development of a sustainable business model with social acceptance, makes necessary to develop new strategies to guarantee the growth, health, and well-being of farmed animals. Debaryomyces hansenii is a yeas...

    Authors: Ignasi Sanahuja, Alberto Ruiz, Joana P. Firmino, Felipe E. Reyes-López, Juan B. Ortiz-Delgado, Eva Vallejos-Vidal, Lluis Tort, Dariel Tovar-Ramírez, Isabel M. Cerezo, Miguel A. Moriñigo, Carmen Sarasquete and Enric Gisbert
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:90
  14. Wool fibers are valuable materials for textile industry. Typical wool fibers are divided into medullated and non-medullated types, with the former generated from primary wool follicles and the latter by either...

    Authors: Jiankui Wang, Guoying Hua, Ganxian Cai, Yuhao Ma, Xue Yang, Letian Zhang, Rui Li, Jianbin Liu, Qing Ma, Keliang Wu, Yaofeng Zhao and Xuemei Deng
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:88
  15. Mammary gland (MG) infections (mastitis) are frequent diseases of dairy cows that affect milk quality, animal welfare and farming profitability. These infections are commonly associated with the bacteria Escheric...

    Authors: Pablo Gomes Noleto, Florence B. Gilbert, Christelle Rossignol, Patricia Cunha, Pierre Germon, Pascal Rainard and Rodrigo Prado Martins
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:100
  16. Soybean (Glycine max) meal is one of the important protein sources for fish, but the non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) in soybean meal impair the intestinal barrier function. Here we aimed to investigate whether ...

    Authors: Tong Wang, Nannan Zhou, Junyi He, Zhenzhen Hao, Chentao Zhou, Yidi Du, Zhenyu Du, Xiaoyun Su and Meiling Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:86
  17. Abdominal fat deposition depends on both the proliferation of preadipocytes and their maturation into adipocytes, which is a well-orchestrated multistep process involving many regulatory molecules. Circular RN...

    Authors: Weihua Tian, Ye Liu, Wenhui Zhang, Ruixue Nie, Yao Ling, Bo Zhang, Hao Zhang and Changxin Wu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:91
  18. Subclinical intramammary infection (IMI) represents a significant problem in maintaining dairy cows’ health. Disease severity and extent depend on the interaction between the causative agent, environment, and ...

    Authors: Vittoria Bisutti, Núria Mach, Diana Giannuzzi, Alice Vanzin, Emanuele Capra, Riccardo Negrini, Maria Elena Gelain, Alessio Cecchinato, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan and Sara Pegolo
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:93
  19. Cold regions have long autumn and winter seasons and low ambient temperatures. When pigs are unable to adjust to the cold, oxidative damage and inflammation may develop. However, the differences between cold a...

    Authors: Teng Teng, Guodong Sun, Hongwei Ding, Xin Song, Guangdong Bai, Baoming Shi and Tingting Shang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:84
  20. Alginate oligosaccharide (AOS) holds great potential as a novel feed supplement in farm animals. However, the effects of AOS on chicken health and the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. This study...

    Authors: A La Teng Zhu La, Yuqing Feng, Die Hu, Yimei Feng, Xiaolu Jin, Dan Liu, Yuming Guo, Gong Cheng and Yongfei Hu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:96
  21. Soy protein supplements, with high crude protein and less antinutritional factors, are produced from soybean meal by different processes. This study evaluated the comparative effects of various soy protein sup...

    Authors: Zixiao Deng, Marcos Elias Duarte, So Young Kim, Yunil Hwang and Sung Woo Kim
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:89
  22. Reducing Salmonella infection in broiler chickens by using effective and safe alternatives to antibiotics is vital to provide safer poultry meat and minimize the emergence of drug-resistant Salmonella and the spr...

    Authors: Zeqiong Hu, Lin Liu, Fangshen Guo, Jia Huang, Jianing Qiao, Ruichen Bi, Jinyu Huang, Kaichen Zhang, Yuming Guo and Zhong Wang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:95
  23. Genomic selection involves choosing as parents those elite individuals with the higher genomic estimated breeding values (GEBV) to accelerate the speed of genetic improvement in domestic animals. But after mul...

    Authors: Fuping Zhao, Pengfei Zhang, Xiaoqing Wang, Deniz Akdemir, Dorian Garrick, Jun He and Lixian Wang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:87
  24. Sustainable strategies for enteric methane (CH4) mitigation of dairy cows have been extensively explored to improve production performance and alleviate environmental pressure. The present study aimed to investig...

    Authors: Lifeng Dong, Lei Zhao, Bowei Li, Yanhua Gao, Tianhai Yan, Peter Lund, Zhuofan Liu and Qiyu Diao
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:71
  25. Lactulose as an effective prebiotic protects intestinal mucosal injury. Bacillus coagulans is widely used in feed additives because of its ability to promote intestinal health. Our previous study suggests that th...

    Authors: Weijiang Zheng, Zuyan Zhao, Yunnan Yang, Liren Ding and Wen Yao
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:80
  26. Antimicrobial alternatives are urgently needed, including for poultry production systems. In this study, we tested the potential broad-range antimicrobial alternative peracetic acid, delivered in feed via the ...

    Authors: Salvatore Galgano, Leah Conway, Nikki Dalby, Adrian Fellows and Jos G. M. Houdijk
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:83
  27. Clock circadian regulator (CLOCK) is a core factor of the mammalian biological clock system in regulating female fertility and ovarian physiology. However, CLOCK's specific function and molecular mechanism in ...

    Authors: Liang Huang, Huan Yuan, Shengjie Shi, Xiangrong Song, Lutong Zhang, Xiaoge Zhou, Lei Gao, Weijun Pang, Gongshe Yang and Guiyan Chu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:82
  28. Sperm is essential for successful artificial insemination in dairy cattle, and its quality can be influenced by both epigenetic modification and epigenetic inheritance. The bovine germline differentiation is c...

    Authors: Xiao Wang, Wenlong Li, Xia Feng, Jianbin Li, George E. Liu, Lingzhao Fang and Ying Yu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:76

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  29. The skeletal muscle of pigs is vulnerable to oxidative damage, resulting in growth retardation. Selenoproteins are important components of antioxidant systems for animals, which are generally regulated by diet...

    Authors: Jinzhong Jing, Ying He, Yan Liu, Jiayong Tang, Longqiong Wang, Gang Jia, Guangmang Liu, Xiaoling Chen, Gang Tian, Jingyi Cai, Lianqiang Che, Bo Kang and Hua Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:79
  30. Heat stress in laying hens negatively affects egg production and shell quality by disrupting the homeostasis of plasma calcium and phosphorus levels. Although the kidney plays an important role in calcium and ...

    Authors: Fumika Nanto-Hara, Makoto Yamazaki, Hitoshi Murakami and Haruhiko Ohtsu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:81
  31. Fertility declines in high-parity sows. This study investigated whether parity-dependent declines in embryonic survival and reproductive performance could be restored by dietary coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplement...

    Authors: Shanchuan Cao, Honglin Yan, Wenjie Tang, Hongfu Zhang and Jingbo Liu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:75
  32. Breed identification is useful in a variety of biological contexts. Breed identification usually involves two stages, i.e., detection of breed-informative SNPs and breed assignment. For both stages, there are ...

    Authors: Changheng Zhao, Dan Wang, Jun Teng, Cheng Yang, Xinyi Zhang, Xianming Wei and Qin Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:85
  33. A detailed understanding of genetic variants that affect beef merit helps maximize the efficiency of breeding for improved production merit in beef cattle. To prioritize the putative variants and genes, we ran...

    Authors: Wentao Cai, Yapeng Zhang, Tianpeng Chang, Zezhao Wang, Bo Zhu, Yan Chen, Xue Gao, Lingyang Xu, Lupei Zhang, Huijiang Gao, Jiuzhou Song and Junya Li
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:78
  34. Pork quality can directly affect customer purchase tendency and meat quality traits have become valuable in modern pork production. However, genetic improvement has been slow due to high phenotyping costs. In ...

    Authors: Zhanwei Zhuang, Jie Wu, Yibin Qiu, Donglin Ruan, Rongrong Ding, Cineng Xu, Shenping Zhou, Yuling Zhang, Yiyi Liu, Fucai Ma, Jifei Yang, Ying Sun, Enqin Zheng, Ming Yang, Gengyuan Cai, Jie Yang…
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:67
  35. Dairy cows’ lactation performance is the outcome of the crosstalk between ruminal microbial metabolism and host metabolism. However, it is still unclear to what extent the rumen microbiome and its metabolites,...

    Authors: Chenguang Zhang, Mengya Wang, Huifeng Liu, Xingwei Jiang, Xiaodong Chen, Tao Liu, Qingyan Yin, Yue Wang, Lu Deng, Junhu Yao and Shengru Wu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:63
  36. The study evaluated the effects of bacteriophage cocktail (BP) and ZnO administered during weaning time for piglets exposed to a non-sanitary environment. The bacteriophages were designed to eliminate Escherichia...

    Authors: YoHan Choi, Abdolreza Hosseindoust, Sang Hun Ha, Joeun Kim, YeJin Min, YongDae Jeong, JunYoung Mun, SooJin Sa and JinSoo Kim
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:64
  37. Carcass traits are crucial for broiler ducks, but carcass traits can only be measured postmortem. Genomic selection (GS) is an effective approach in animal breeding to improve selection and reduce costs. Howev...

    Authors: Wentao Cai, Jian Hu, Wenlei Fan, Yaxi Xu, Jing Tang, Ming Xie, Yunsheng Zhang, Zhanbao Guo, Zhengkui Zhou and Shuisheng Hou
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:74
  38. As large-scale genomic studies have progressed, it has been revealed that a single reference genome pattern cannot represent genetic diversity at the species level. While domestic animals tend to have complex ...

    Authors: Ying Gong, Yefang Li, Xuexue Liu, Yuehui Ma and Lin Jiang
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:73
  39. The feed intake of sows during lactation is often lower than their needs. High-fiber feed is usually used during gestation to increase the voluntary feed intake of sows during lactation. However, the mechanism...

    Authors: Shuang Li, Jie Zheng, Jiaqi He, Hao Liu, Yingyan Huang, Liansu Huang, Ke Wang, Xilun Zhao, Bin Feng, Lianqiang Che, Zhengfeng Fang, Jian Li, Shengyu Xu, Yan Lin, Xuemei Jiang, Lun Hua…
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:65
  40. A gap currently exists between genetic variants and the underlying cell and tissue biology of a trait, and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies provide important information to help close that gap...

    Authors: Mackenzie A. Marrella and Fernando H. Biase
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:62
  41. In broiler chickens, necrotic enteritis (NE) infection can reduce production performance. Tannic acid has shown great potential as a treatment of NE in broilers. However, the appropriate dosage of tannic acid ...

    Authors: Huiping Xu, Jianyang Fu, Yimeng Luo, Peng Li, Bochen Song, Zengpeng Lv and Yuming Guo
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:72
  42. Chickens provide globally important livestock products. Understanding the genetic and molecular mechanisms underpinning chicken economic traits is crucial for improving their selective breeding. Influenced by ...

    Authors: Jing Tian, Xiaoning Zhu, Hanyu Wu, Yuzhe Wang and Xiaoxiang Hu
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:69
  43. Bovine milk is an important source of nutrition for human consumption, and its quality is closely associated with the microbiota and metabolites in it. But there is limited knowledge about the milk microbiome ...

    Authors: Yingyu Mu, Wangpan Qi, Tao Zhang, Jiyou Zhang and Shengyong Mao
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:60
  44. Mastitis not only deteriorates the composition or quality of milk, but also damages the health and productivity of dairy goats. Sulforaphane (SFN) is a phytochemical isothiocyanate compound with various pharma...

    Authors: Dan Shao, Wenxiang Shen, Yuyang Miao, Zhen Gao, Menghao Pan, Qiang Wei, Zuoting Yan, Xiaoe Zhao and Baohua Ma
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:61
  45. Accumulating evidence from human trials and rodent studies has indicated that modulation of gut microbiota affects host physiological homeostasis and behavioral characteristics. Similarly, alterations in gut m...

    Authors: Yuechi Fu, Jiaying Hu, Marisa A. Erasmus, Huanmin Zhang, Timothy A. Johnson and Hengwei Cheng
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:66
  46. The fat deposition has a crucial role in animal meat flavor, and fat deposition-related traits are vital for breeding in the commercial duck industry. Avian fat-related traits are typical complex phenotypes, w...

    Authors: Xiaoqin Li, Fan Zhang, Yunxiao Sun, Dandan Sun, Fangxi Yang, Yongtong Liu and Zhuocheng Hou
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:70
  47. The mechanism by which Meishan (MS) sows are superior to white crossbred sows in ovarian follicle development remains unclear. Given gut microbiota could regulate female ovarian function and reproductive capac...

    Authors: Baoyang Xu, Wenxia Qin, Yuwen Chen, Yimei Tang, Shuyi Zhou, Juncheng Huang, Libao Ma and Xianghua Yan
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:68
  48. Mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) are recommended as aquaculture additives owing to their excellent antioxidant properties. In the present study, we examined the effects of dietary MOS on the head kidney and splee...

    Authors: Zhiyuan Lu, Lin Feng, Weidan Jiang, Pei Wu, Yang Liu, Jun Jiang, Shengyao Kuang, Ling Tang, Shuwei Li, Chengbo Zhong and Xiaoqiu Zhou
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:58
  49. Sharply increased beef consumption is propelling the genetic improvement projects of beef cattle in China. Three-dimensional genome structure is confirmed to be an important layer of transcription regulation. ...

    Authors: Jie Cheng, Xiukai Cao, Xiaogang Wang, Jian Wang, Binglin Yue, Wei Sun, Yongzhen Huang, Xianyong Lan, Gang Ren, Chuzhao Lei and Hong Chen
    Citation: Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2023 14:59

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