There is increasing interest in the biology of domestic animals ranging from genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, nutritional physiology, and systems biology. This book touches on all of these, with a particular focus on topics such as domestic animals as comparative models to humans, molecular regulation of growth, metabolic efficiency, reproduction, and the impact of stress on growth and development. The book concludes with a discussion on the current and future directions for researchers.
Domestic Animals as Comparative Models to Humans. Equine Exercise
Physiology: A Historical Perspective. The Pig Model for the Study of Obesity
and Associated Metabolic Diseases. Growth Hormone and the Chick Eye. Porosome
Enables the Establishment of Fusion Pore at its Base and the Consequent
Kiss-and-Run Mechanism of Secretion from Cells. Molecular Regulation of
Growth / Metabolic Efficiency. Epigenetics and Developmental Programming in
Ruminants Long-Term Impacts on Growth and Development. Molecular Physiology
of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle. Hormonal Control of Energy Substrate
Utilization and Energy Metabolism in Domestic Animals. Reproduction.
Reproduction in Poultry: An Overview. Animal Stress and Welfare. Stress in
Livestock Animals: From Domestication to Factory Production. Biology of
Stress in Livestock and Poultry. Future Directions. Nutrient Transporter Gene
Expression in Poultry, Livestock and Fish. Novel Peptides in Poultry: A Case
Study of the Expanding Glucagon Peptide Superfamily in Chickens (Gallus
gallus).
Colin G. Scanes, Rodney A. Hill
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