Animals, Volume 15, Issue 8

The aims of this study were to characterise the faecal amino acid profile of dogs with different chronic digestive diseases (food-responsive enteropathy (FRE), immunosuppressant-responsive enteropathy (IRE)) prior to dietary change, and Giardia infec...

Sustainable livestock production is a critical component of global food security and environmental stewardship. Agricultural crop residues, such as cereal straws, stovers, and hulls, as well as agro-industrial by-products, including oilseed meals, di...

Parasites and parasitic diseases in small animals pose a significant challenge to public health, animal health, and environmental sustainability, and this Special Issue is particularly relevant within the context of the One Health approach, which rec...

This study analyzes 324 captive giant panda breeding events (1998–2023) to unravel maternal and gestational drivers of cub survival and health—the largest dataset of its kind to date. Key variables included gestational duration, maternal...

The psoas major muscle (PMM) is a piece of pork with good tenderness and high value. Intramuscular fat (IMF) content, serving as a pivotal indicator of pork quality, varies greatly among pigs within the same breed. However, there is a paucity of stud...

Our previous investigations identified miR-30a-3p as a differentially expressed miRNA in ovine mammary tissue across sheep breeds with distinct lactation performance and different physiological stages. However, its regulatory mechanisms controlling m...

Antibiotic-free (ABF) broiler production plays an important role in promoting sustainable and welfare-oriented poultry farming. However, this production system presents challenges, particularly an increased susceptibility to stress and mortality duri...

The genetic mechanisms underlying the formation of defects, such as bumps and growths on the hock joints in pigs, remain poorly understood. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between runs of homozygosity (ROH) and th...

Effective control of bacterial infections remains a significant challenge in aquaculture. The marine bacterium Piscirickettsia salmonis (P. salmonis), responsible for piscirickettsiosis, causes widespread infections in various salmon species, leading...

Twist2 plays a pivotal regulatory role in the growth of skeletal muscle across various organisms. Nonetheless, the specific mechanism by which Twist2 governs skeletal muscle function in fish, particularly in the economically significant Chinese perch...