Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Animals (IECA 2025)
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 137
Special Issue Editors
Interests: herd health; clinical epidemiology; neonatal immunity in newborn bovines; etiology; (NIR) non-ionidasing radiation
Interests: animal welfare, sustainability and endocrine physiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Animals (IECA 2025) was held from 12 to 14 March 2025 (https://sciforum.net/event/IECA2025), confirming the great interest the scholarly community has in this conference series. International conferences such as this one have a vital role to play in stimulating the thoughts and ideas that lead to research that solves the problems we see in the animal kingdom today.
This Special Issue welcomes selected papers from IECA 2025 that promote and advance this exciting and rapidly developing field. More specifically, the following areas will be covered:
- Sustainable animal nutrition;
- Animal genetics and genomics;
- Sustainable animal physiology and reproduction;
- Environmental challenges to animals and precision livestock farming;
- Sustainable animal welfare, ethics, and human–animal interactions;
- The sustainability of products derived from animals;
- One Health approaches: Improving disease manifestation and management in animals, humans, and the environment.
Submitted contributions will be subjected to peer review and, upon acceptance, will be published, with the aim of rapidly and widely disseminating research results, developments, and applications.
It should be noted that submitted manuscripts should be more substantial in length and depth compared to the papers presented at IECA 2025.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Michael Hässig
Prof. Dr. Colin G Scanes
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- farm animals
- companion animals
- zoo animals
- wildlife
- aquatic animals
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