Nutritional Regulation of Gut Microbiota in Animals
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2026 | Viewed by 528
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gut microbiota; nutritional regulation; microbe-metabolite-host interactions
Interests: microbiome; rumen; intestinal health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, titled “Nutritional Regulation of Gut Microbiota in Animals,” focuses on how diet or feed additives shape microbial communities and microbe–metabolite–host interactions that influence growth, health, welfare, and sustainability across animal species. Its scope spans domestic livestock, Cervids and other special economic animals, companion animals, experimental animals and wildlife under managed care. We welcome original research, reviews, and methodological papers discussing controlled feeding trials; multi-omics (metagenomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics), gnotobiotic or probiotic/prebiotic/postbiotic interventions; modeling of fermentation and VFA/bile-acid pathways; and translational studies linking mechanisms to performance or clinical outcomes. This Special Issue’s goal is to move beyond correlation toward causal, mechanism-based nutrition that can be implemented in practice.
This Special Issue will complement the existing literature by (i) integrating scattered findings across species and diets into a comparative framework, (ii) pairing nutritional manipulations with rigorous multi-omics to define actionable levers, and (iii) encouraging harmonized reporting, data sharing, and replication to improve reproducibility and uptake in the field.
Dr. Huazhe Si
Dr. Shengru Wu
Dr. Ning Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gut microbiota
- nutritional regulation
- microbe–metabolite–host interactions
- short-chain fatty acids
- bile acids
- probiotics/prebiotics/postbiotics
- multi-omics
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