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Animals, Volume 10, Issue 9

September 2020 - 274 articles

Cover Story: Our gut microbiota can greatly influence our behaviour and neurodevelopment. Kubinyi et al. reported that dogs' aging mechanism and memory performance are also linked to their gut microbiome composition. They found that the abundance of Fusobacteria phylum in fecal samples is negatively correlated with chronological age in dogs. Interestingly, in humans, Fusobacteria were shown to increase with age and have been linked to serious illnesses, such as inflammatory bowel disease. Therefore, Fusobacteria likely play a fundamentally different, beneficial, role in carnivores compared to humans. Moreover, dogs performing worse in a short-term memory test had relatively more Actinobacteria. This finding can indicate a shared mechanism underlying dogs' and humans' cognitive aging, since Actinobacteria were also shown to be more abundant in the intestines of Alzheimer patients. View this paper.
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Articles (274)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,047 Views
12 Pages

Brisket Disease Is Associated with Lower Volatile Fatty Acid Production and Altered Rumen Microbiome in Holstein Heifers

  • Naren Gaowa,
  • Kevin Panke-Buisse,
  • Shuxiang Wang,
  • Haibo Wang,
  • Zhijun Cao,
  • Yajing Wang,
  • Kun Yao and
  • Shengli Li

22 September 2020

Brisket disease is heritable but is also associated with non-genetic risk factors and effects of the disease on the rumen microbiome are unknown. Ten Holstein heifers were exposed to the plateau environment for three months and divided into two group...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,639 Views
12 Pages

22 September 2020

This experiment investigated the potential inclusion of fermented rapeseed cake (FRC) in turkey diets. The turkeys received diets either not supplemented (C) or supplemented with raw rapeseed cake (RRC) or FRC at 150 g/kg diet. In comparison with RRC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,822 Views
9 Pages

22 September 2020

Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) is a highly contagious pathogen which not only can cause neonatal meningitis, pneumonia, and septicemia but is also considered to be a major cause of bovine mastitis (BM), leading to large economic losses to the dairy i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,893 Views
14 Pages

In Vivo Screening and Antidiabetic Potential of Polyphenol Extracts from Guava Pulp, Seeds and Leaves

  • Hassan Shabbir,
  • Tusneem Kausar,
  • Sobia Noreen,
  • Hafeez ur Rehman,
  • Ashiq Hussain,
  • Qingrong Huang,
  • Adil Gani,
  • Shiwei Su and
  • Asad Nawaz

22 September 2020

The present study investigates the antidiabetic potential of polyphenol extracts purified from guava pulp, seeds and leaves using an in vivo experiment on albino rats. The polyphenols from guava pulp, seeds and leaves were extracted using methanol so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,688 Views
25 Pages

Differences in the Loin Tenderness of Iberian Pigs Explained through Dissimilarities in Their Transcriptome Expression Profile

  • Miguel Ángel Fernández-Barroso,
  • Carmen Caraballo,
  • Luis Silió,
  • Carmen Rodríguez,
  • Yolanda Nuñez,
  • Fernando Sánchez-Esquiliche,
  • Gema Matos,
  • Juan María García-Casco and
  • María Muñoz

22 September 2020

Tenderness is one of the most important meat quality traits and it can be measured through shear force with the Warner–Bratzler test. In the current study, we use the RNA-seq technique to analyze the transcriptome of Longissimus dorsi (LD) musc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,516 Views
11 Pages

Silage of Prickly Pears (Opuntia spp.) Juice By-Products

  • Alessandro Vastolo,
  • Serena Calabrò,
  • Monica Isabella Cutrignelli,
  • Girolamo Raso and
  • Massimo Todaro

22 September 2020

Cactus pear cladodes are used as forage in the most arid regions. In Italy, the human consumption of prickly pear fruits and juice is gradually increasing for their numerous health benefits. In manufacturing plants that produce prickly pear juice, se...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,109 Views
28 Pages

22 September 2020

Disease is a global problem for animal farming industries causing tremendous economic losses (>USD 220 billion over the last decade) and serious animal welfare issues. The limitations and deficiencies of current non-selection disease control metho...

  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
16,387 Views
28 Pages

Clostridium perfringens as Foodborne Pathogen in Broiler Production: Pathophysiology and Potential Strategies for Controlling Necrotic Enteritis

  • Zuamí Villagrán-de la Mora,
  • María Esther Macías-Rodríguez,
  • Jenny Arratia-Quijada,
  • Yesica Sughey Gonzalez-Torres,
  • Karla Nuño and
  • Angélica Villarruel-López

22 September 2020

Clostridium perfringens (Cp.) is the cause of human foodborne desease. Meat and poultry products are identified as the main source of infection for humans. Cp. can be found in poultry litter, feces, soil, dust, and healthy birds’ intestinal con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,459 Views
20 Pages

Frequent Visits to an Outdoor Range and Lower Areas of an Aviary System Is Related to Curiosity in Commercial Free-Range Laying Hens

  • Manisha Kolakshyapati,
  • Peta Simone Taylor,
  • Adam Hamlin,
  • Terence Zimazile Sibanda,
  • Jessica de Souza Vilela and
  • Isabelle Ruhnke

21 September 2020

Individual hen preferences to spend time at particular locations within a free-range aviary system and relationships with temperament is relatively unknown. Hens (n = 769) from three commercial flocks were monitored with Radio Frequency Identificatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,612 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2020

Previous research has shown features of an attachment bond to be fulfilled in, for instance, human–dog dyads; however, there is a considerable lack of research on the potential attachment in human–horse relationships. Employing Bowlby&rsq...

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