Dietary Components in Animal Nutrition: Favoring Sustainability, Welfare and Safety—Second Edition
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 420
Special Issue Editor
Interests: swine nutrition; gut microbiota–host interactions; intestinal barrier function; lipid metabolism; microbial metabolites; extracellular vesicles
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Dear Colleagues,
Increasing attention has focused on animal sustainability, welfare and safety, which can be greatly improved by dietary components. Dietary components significantly affect the physiology and behavior of animals. Inappropriate diet components could lead to stress and consequently threaten animal health, as energy consumption and immune response are highly enhanced. A suitable proportion of nutrient elements in diet is crucial to animal sustainability, welfare and safety.
This Special Issue of Animals will publish reviews and original research articles covering the recent research advances in the influence of dietary components in animal nutrition on sustainability, welfare and safety. The dietary components may mainly involve different levels and types of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, as well as functional components, including plants and plant extracts, organic acids, probiotics, etc.
We are particularly interested in studies that strengthen our understanding of the physiological and biochemical mechanisms of dietary components on the sustainability, welfare and safety of farm animals. In addition, promising and innovative diet additives and feeding patterns that favor sustainability, welfare and safety are welcome.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The influence of dietary components, innovative additives and feeding patterns on sustainability, welfare and safety in farm animals;
- Host alterations in response to dietary components and feeding patterns revealed by multi-omics integration analysis;
- Deciphering the mechanism underlying dietary components on sustainability, welfare and safety.
Prof. Dr. Xihong Zhou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animal health
- animal welfare
- farm animal
- feed components
- gut microbiota
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