This study examined the effects of dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) fed during the final fattening period on growth, slaughter traits, backfat and carcass tissue composition in castrated male and female Swedish Landrace pigs. A total of 112 pig...
Reproductive performance in roe deer can vary with age, body mass, and habitat, but the relationships among these factors remain incompletely understood. We examined ovarian morphometry and reproductive activity in 105 female roe deer harvested in fo...
Mastitis is one of the most common diseases affecting dairy cows. In the majority of cases, intramammary infections are caused by bacteria, amongst which Streptococcus uberis (S. uberis) currently plays a significant role. The aim of the study was to...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of a novel bacterial phytase in diets for laying hens on productive performance, egg quality, biochemical and endocrine parameters, and bone quality. A total of 700 Hy-Line W-36 laying hens, 24...
Adipose-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have attracted increasing attention as regulators of intercellular communication and lipid metabolism. These nanoscale vesicles transport diverse cargo, including proteins, lipids, mRNAs, lncRNAs, and miRN...
The Hatay mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) population, the only one in Türkiye, is concentrated in a narrow area on the Türkiye–Syria border and marks the northern limit of the species’ global range. Vantage point counts from...
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has evolved from a geographically restricted transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cervids into an international wildlife health challenge with documented population-level impact and potential broader consequences f...
Polyinosinic–polycytidylic acid (poly I:C), a synthetic double-stranded RNA analogue, is recognized as a potential immunostimulant; however, its dietary effects and regulatory mechanisms in Litopenaeus vannamei remain unclear. This study invest...
Fatty liver in transition dairy cows is associated with negative energy balance and impaired hepatic adaptation. Bayogenin, a triterpenoid sapogenin associated with alfalfa saponins, has an unclear role in bovine hepatic metabolism. This study integr...
Machine learning has not been widely applied to Zambian indigenous chickens, which account for most of the poultry kept by smallholder farmers in the country. We compared six algorithms (CART, ANN, KNN, Random Forest, SVR, and Gradient Boosting) to d...
Porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC) causes substantial economic losses in swine production. This study aimed to investigate culturable bacterial pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance profiles in pneumonic lungs from pigs with clinical P...
Triplophysa is an important component of high-altitude freshwater fish fauna on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and adjacent regions, and morphological overlap among closely related species complicates species identification. In this study, we conducted an...
The giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) is an economically important aquaculture species; however, few growth-associated polymorphisms have been reported. Whole-genome resequencing (WGS) was performed on 104 farmed prawns from Vietnam,...
This study aimed to investigate the effects of dietary inclusion of liquor distillers’ grains with solubles (LDGS) on growth performance, serum biochemical parameters, immune and antioxidant status, short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) and fecal micro...
This narrative review asks how accurately available tests identify the presence of a viable bovine embryo during days 18–28 after insemination and what evidence is required to improve their interpretation. We compare each method’s biologi...
Mare’s milk carries cultural and economic importance in Central Asia, yet udder and teat morphology in relation to individual milk yield remain poorly characterized, and farm-level confounding inflates apparent associations in multi-farm data....
Pseudorabies virus (PRV) causes Aujeszky’s disease and continues to pose a potential threat to the swine industry. Understanding the codon usage patterns of PRV-responsive porcine genes could shed light on host–virus interactions, evoluti...
The transcriptomic basis of natural fiber-color diversity in alpacas remains incompletely understood. We analyzed skin biopsies from 65 Huacaya alpacas by RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and integrated phenotypic color categories with instrumental Commissio...
Rapid population increases in degraded habitats have been reported for the plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae)—a small burrowing lagomorph endemic to the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau—challenging the ecological balance of alpine meadow ecosys...
This study assessed companion dog welfare across multiple domains using owner-observable information and examined differences in welfare scores according to owner and dog characteristics. Drawing on the Five Domains Model and previous research, we de...
Ketamine is included in multimodal analgesic protocols, but evidence for its benefit on postoperative and persistent pain in dogs is limited. This retrospective cohort study evaluated the association between perianesthetic ketamine infusion and posto...
While the detrimental impacts of necrotic enteritis (NE) on poultry health and growth are well documented, its consequences on final meat quality are poorly understood. This research evaluated how a clinical NE infection alters the physicochemical an...
Direct laryngoscopy provides a transient view of the canine larynx that is difficult to document or review. We compared direct and monitor laryngeal views obtained using a video laryngoscope and evaluated the reproducibility of video-based percentage...
Cat exhibitions may influence cats’ physiological responses, warranting further investigation. This study evaluated infrared thermography (IRT) for assessing periocular temperature in cats under exhibition conditions. Images were obtained from...
Equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) is a major equine pathogen causing myeloencephalopathy, abortion, and respiratory disease. Following the detection of EHV-1 DNA in urine from naturally infected horses, urine has emerged as a potential complementary non-i...
Milk formulas for piglets predominantly rely on cow-derived proteins, which are costly and raise biosecurity concerns. As a highly digestible plant protein source, enzymatic soybean (ESB) may offer a viable alternative. This study evaluated the effec...
Rupture of the Achilles (common calcaneal) tendon remains one of the most demanding soft-tissue injuries in canine orthopaedic surgery, and recent large-cohort evidence confirms that no single surgical or postoperative strategy is clearly superior ac...
Chronic inflammatory enteropathy is common and clinically challenging in dogs. Probiotics are explored as dietary adjuncts, but how inactivation methods affect strain performance remains unclear. This study compared viable, heat-killed, electron beam...
Event-level documentary scrutiny of animal welfare requires matching each claim to the correct administrative record and linking related records. This study asks how far selected published Spanish records support such scrutiny for bull-related events...
Alpaca farming and alpaca-assisted activities are becoming increasingly popular in Poland. However, information on allergenic and parasitic mites occurring in alpaca housing remains scarce. This study aimed to characterize mite diversity in litter an...
Dietary fibre is important for gastrointestinal health and feed efficiency in pigs, but alternative fibre sources, particularly in high-rye diets, require further evaluation. This study examined the effects of rye and oat inclusion on growth performa...
The Madagascar pochard (Aythya innotata) is one of the world’s rarest birds, with fewer than 50 mature individuals remaining in the wild. Despite its critically endangered status, genetic resources for this species remain extremely limited. In...
Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae are increasingly used as sustainable feed resources, and recent studies have expanded knowledge of their lipid fraction. This study characterized a single batch of mechanically extracted unrefined black so...
Raccoon dog and fox amdoparvovirus (RFAV), classified as Amdoparvovirus carnivoran3, was recently identified in domestic dogs, though its clinical significance remains unclear. This study describes RFAV detection in a 4-year-old female Doberman Pinsc...
Deviation patterns identified through quality management system (QMS) audits in Trichinella spp. meat inspection may vary across species processed, activity idiosyncrasies and audit scenarios. This study retrospectively analysed 3023 category-level a...
Beauvericin (BEA) is an emerging mycotoxin widely detected in feeds in recent years, posing a serious threat to the physiological health of dairy cows. Current studies on the biological toxicity of BEA mainly focus on the reproductive system, while r...
CH4 emissions from cattle are a major contributor of greenhouse gases in the world. Finding additives to mitigate CH4 production is essential to achieve sustainable livestock operations. MgO may reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) production under anaerobic...
The Jiami donkey is an indigenous breed distributed on the Loess Plateau of northern Shaanxi Province, China. Owing to the rapid mechanization of agriculture, its population has declined substantially in recent decades, highlighting the need for effe...
This study evaluated increasing dietary doses of a live yeast probiotic (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) on broiler growth performance and cecal microbiota. A total of 1200 day-old straight-run Ross 708 chicks were allocated to five treatments (12 replicat...
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) continues to pose a substantial threat to the global swine industry, with recombination-driven evolution generating novel variants that complicate disease control. In this study, two novel r...
This study evaluated the effects of capsaicin addition before feed fermentation on electronic-nose profiles, in vitro fermentation, and animal responses in finishing Yanbian cattle. Electronic-nose analysis compared unfermented and fermented feeds pr...
Mastitis is a common disease in dairy cows, characterized primarily by mammary inflammation, which induces epithelial cell apoptosis and blood–milk barrier (BMB) disruption, seriously threatening milk quality and yield. Parthenolide (PTL), a bi...
Post-weaning diarrhoea remains a major health and production challenge in pig farming, and effective alternatives to pharmacological zinc oxide are needed. This study evaluated bivalent VHH constructs as a potential dietary alternative to pharmacolog...
Honghe cattle were formally recognized as the eighth indigenous cattle breed in Yunnan Province, a region in southwestern China characterized by complex geography and variable climates that have shaped distinctive local cattle germplasm. In this stud...
Whether differences in natural musk quality are associated with identifiable microbial ecological and metabolic configurations remains unclear, as studies integrating phenotype, community composition, functional sources, and non-muscone metabolic bac...
There has been a rise in the use of conservation detection dogs (CDDs); however, they are yet to be noted in science for bryophyte detection. If implemented effectively, this method could have a significant positive impact, particularly due to the ne...
Fish meal (FM) remains a primary protein source in aquafeeds; however, its high cost and limited availability necessitate the exploration of alternative protein sources. This study, thus, investigates the effects of replacing 10% FM protein, equivale...
Intramuscular fat (IMF) is crucial for goat meat quality, being influenced by preadipocyte proliferation and differentiation. Although the developmental transcription factor HOXA5 is associated with adipose tissue development and lipid deposition in...
Predation by domestic cats is a recognised but poorly quantified threat to bats, and Eastern Europe is almost absent from the evidence. We analysed twelve years (2013–2024) of records of the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Centre, 41,910 bats of 1...
H7N9 avian influenza viruses have caused repeated human infections since 2013, but the effects of naturally occurring PB2 substitution combinations on polymerase activity remain poorly understood. We analyzed 899 avian-derived and 1087 human-derived...
