Special Issue "Relationships between Animal Hosts and Microbiota, Animal Health and Response to Diseases"
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2023 | Viewed by 901
Special Issue Editor
Interests: system biology; functional genomics; nutrigenomics; metagenomic; biomarkers discovery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the launch of the human metagenome project in 2007, the role of microbiome in shaping host response has gained popularity, and today, it is recognized that also in livestock, companion, and wild animals, the factors affecting the relationship between host and microbes are a fundamental pillar to unravel the complexity of organism response to internal and external stimuli. Microbiome is influenced by genetic factors, sex, age, and nutrition of the host and by climate conditions and influences of the neuronal, endocrine, behavioral, immune, and digestive response of animals, which in turn modify the ability to cope with stressors and to perform in the environment.
Although recently, the animal microbiome issue has received an impressive number of research, it is my opinion that a systematic collection of existing and new data is needed to disentangle the complexity of mutual influences between microbial communities and animal health.
Prof. Dr. Bruno Stefanon
Guest Editor
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 1800 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
- livestock
- companion animals
- wild animals
- microbiota
- metabolites
- physiology
- non-communicable diseases
- infectious diseases
- environment