Nutrition and Metabolism in Animals

Dear Colleagues,

As a post-genomic approach, metabolomics has been used to identify small molecule metabolic products and to discover useful biomarkers and pathways involved in biological processes. In addition to being produced by the host, metabolites can be derived by microbiota, as well as transformed from dietary nutrients. In recent years, untargeted and targeted metabolomics have been applied to investigate metabolic activity status in relation to ruminants, providing a snapshot of the entire physiology and offer a potential to identify causal upstream pathways.

This Special Issue is devoted to nutrition and metabolism in ruminants. The topics that will be covered include (not exclusively) studies on the metabolomics analyses of dairy cattle, beef cattle, goat, and sheep, and their responses to the nutrient supplies or feed additive supplementations. It is crucial to investigate the effects of various nutrients, etc., on the growth performance, digestibility coefficients, gut development, animal product quality, gut microbiota modulations, and physiological or immunological status. We invite you to publish original scientific articles as well as review papers to expand the current knowledge in the field.

Dr. Yunkyoung Lee
Dr. Guiguo Zhang
Dr. Meng M. Li
Guest Editors

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