Advancing Nutrient Utilization, Product Quality, and Production Efficiency in Livestock Through Omics and Targeted Molecular Approaches
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 604
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal nutrition; gut and systemic health; meat quality; omics analyses
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Dear Colleagues,
Significant advancements have been made in investigating animal health, product quality, and production efficiency using diverse molecular techniques. Both untargeted and targeted analyses play essential roles in understanding biological processes and improving livestock production. Omics approaches including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics offer comprehensive insights that facilitate the analysis of entire molecular profiles. In addition, targeted techniques such as PCR, Western blot, ELISA, and HPLC provide precise quantification of specific biomarkers, complementing omics research and enhancing our ability to tackle key challenges in animal health, product quality, and productivity.
The following Special Issue highlights the application of both omics-based and targeted molecular techniques to enhance livestock productivity, health, and product quality. The scope of this Special Issue includes microbiome analysis, genotyping, RNA sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, and targeted methodologies that facilitate the identification of specific biological molecules and pathways relevant to nutrient utilization, product quality, and overall production efficiency.
By bridging the gap between molecular research and practical applications, this Special Issue aims to offer new perspectives, methodologies, and practical insights that inspire researchers to integrate these approaches into their work. We welcome submissions of original research, case studies, and reviews, particularly those incorporating primary datasets and novel perspectives that deepen our understanding of livestock health, product quality, and production efficiency.
Dr. Janghan Choi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animal nutrition
- gut and systemic health
- meat quality
- omics analyses
- microbiome analysis
- genotyping
- RNA sequencing
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- lipidomics
- nutrient utilization
- production efficiency
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