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Animals, Volume 10, Issue 7

July 2020 - 137 articles

Cover Story: In northern Minnesota, video cameras and microphones connected to the Internet were placed in 6 wild black bear dens. Intimate details of birth, maternal behavior, and cub development were unobtrusively observed until the families emerged in spring. Observations included den type, labor, pre-parturient genital swelling, birthing, post-partum vocalizations, maternal responses to newborn cubs, nursing frequency, nipple order establishment, interactions of yearlings with mother and cubs, ingestion of snow and ice, foot pad ingestion, urination and defecation in latrine areas, toilet-licking, eye opening, reciprocal tongue-licking, play, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, possible dreaming, and reactions to wildlife intruders. The use of this new method for observing natural bear dens allowed the identification of many behaviors undescribed for any species of wild bear in natural dens. View this paper.
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Articles (137)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,540 Views
17 Pages

15 July 2020

The growth of skeletal muscle involves complex developmental processes that play an important part in the determinization of pork quality. The investigation of skeletal muscle mRNA or miRNA profiles is especially important for finding molecular appro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
10,079 Views
13 Pages

Levelling the Translational Gap for Animal to Human Efficacy Data

  • Guilherme S. Ferreira,
  • Désirée H. Veening-Griffioen,
  • Wouter P. C. Boon,
  • Ellen H. M. Moors and
  • Peter J. K. van Meer

15 July 2020

Reports of a reproducibility crisis combined with a high attrition rate in the pharmaceutical industry have put animal research increasingly under scrutiny in the past decade. Many researchers and the general public now question whether there is stil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,449 Views
22 Pages

Influence of the Fermented Feed and Vaccination and Their Interaction on Parameters of Large White/Norwegian Landrace Piglets

  • Laurynas Vadopalas,
  • Sarunas Badaras,
  • Modestas Ruzauskas,
  • Vita Lele,
  • Vytaute Starkute,
  • Paulina Zavistanaviciute,
  • Egle Zokaityte,
  • Vadims Bartkevics,
  • Dovile Klupsaite and
  • Erika Mozuriene
  • + 4 authors

15 July 2020

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of fermented with a newly isolated lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains combination (Lactobacillus plantarum LUHS122, Lactobacillus casei LUHS210, Lactobacillus farraginis LUHS206, Pediococcus acidila...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,487 Views
10 Pages

15 July 2020

Surgical castration is a painful husbandry procedure performed on piglets in the United States (US) to improve meat quality. Veterinarians play a crucial role in developing pain management protocols. However, providing pain management for castration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,159 Views
16 Pages

Association of GHR Polymorphisms with Milk Production in Buffaloes

  • Shymaa M. El-Komy,
  • Ayman A. Saleh,
  • Tamer M. Abdel-Hamid and
  • Mohammed A. El-Magd

15 July 2020

For its role in the mediation of growth hormone (GH) galactopoietic effect, growth hormone receptor (GHR) was considered a functional candidate gene for milk performance in cattle. However, its genetic variation and potential effect have not been inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,177 Views
11 Pages

In Vitro Characterization of Indigenous Probiotic Strains Isolated from Colombian Creole Pigs

  • César Betancur,
  • Yordan Martínez,
  • Guillermo Tellez-Isaias,
  • Mavir Carolina Avellaneda and
  • Borja Velázquez-Martí

15 July 2020

Three lactic acid strains were isolated from feces of the native Zungo Pelado breed of pigs (n = 5) and presumably identified as belonging to the Lactobacillaceae family by morphological techniques showing that they were Gram-positive/rod-shaped and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,105 Views
14 Pages

Breeding and Economic Aspects of Cytogenetic Screening Studies of Pigs Qualified for Reproduction

  • Barbara Danielak-Czech,
  • Anna Kozubska-Sobocińska,
  • Grzegorz Smołucha and
  • Marek Babicz

15 July 2020

Cytogenetic monitoring allows the identification and early removal of pigs affected by inherited karyotype defects from breeding herds. These abnormalities cause developmental anomalies, considerably reducing the fertility (by several dozen to 100%)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,472 Views
14 Pages

Differential Transcription of Selected Cytokine and Neuroactive Ligand-receptor Genes in Peripheral Leukocytes from Calves in Response to Cautery Disbudding

  • Kavitha Kongara,
  • Venkata Sayoji Rao Dukkipati,
  • Hui Min Tai,
  • Axel Heiser,
  • Alan Murray,
  • James Webster and
  • Craig Brian Johnson

14 July 2020

Calf disbudding is a painful husbandry practice on dairy and beef cattle farms. An objective measurement of pain is useful to reliably evaluate the pain intensity and anti-nociceptive (analgesic) efficacy of therapeutic agents. The aim of this study...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,009 Views
17 Pages

14 July 2020

The present review evaluates and compares the effects achieved after application of rabbit-derived bacteriocin-producing strain Enterococcus faecium CCM7420 with probiotic properties and its bacteriocin Ent7420. The experiments included varying durat...

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Animals - ISSN 2076-2615