Animal

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Editorial Board	148
Editorial Board	71
Association between the prion protein genotype and animal performance traits in a large multibreed sheep population	71
From the biochemical pieces to the nutritional puzzle: using meta-reactions in teaching and research	68
Application of milk mid-infrared spectroscopy for prediction of energy balance and associated traits in Fleckvieh and Holstein Friesian dairy cows	68
Editorial: Animal welfare from a transdisciplinary perspective	68
Genome-wide association study of fitness traits in local Alpine cattle breeds: insights into longevity, fertility, and udder health	60
Predicting feed efficiency of Angus steers using the gastrointestinal microbiome	57
Using dynamic modelling to enhance the assessment of the beef water footprint	57
Novel pathways linked to the expression of temperament in Merino sheep: a genome-wide association study	57
Telling tails: a closer look into the hanging tail posture of pigs in relation to their emotional state expressed during a novelty test in isolation	55
Qualitative investigation of the underlying influences for the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in sick calves	53
Early addition of enzyme-treated soybean in the diet improves amino acid absorption and protein digestibility by promoting digestive enzyme activity in broilers	52
Animal board invited review: Dietary transition from animal to plant-derived foods: Are there risks to health?	51
Effects of lactic acid bacteria-fermented formula milk supplementation on colonic microbiota and mucosal transcriptome profile of weaned piglets	50
The welfare of dairy cows managed with Halter virtual fencing and herding technology compared with those managed with electric fencing and stockperson herding	45
Energy metabolism and ruminal fermentation of prolific ewes in response to scheduled increase, relative to lambing, of dietary energy source and concentration	43
Review: How the efficiency of utilization of essential amino acids can be applied in dairy cow nutrition	42
Hydrogenated fat-embedded calcium gluconate improves apparent total tract digestibility in lactating dairy cows in a dose-dependent manner	41
Effectiveness of virtual fencing in a mountain environment and its impact on heifer behaviour and welfare	41
Review: Environment of the ovulatory follicle: modifications and use of biotechnologies to enhance oocyte competence and increase fertility in cattle	41
Review: Ecosystem service indicators in insect farming − a novel One Health perspective	39
Liver mitochondrial content is reduced in response to dietary crude protein and phosphorus deficiencies in wethers	37
Resolving and functional analysis of RNA editing sites in sheep ovaries and associations with litter size	36
Replacing cereals with almond hulls in a 40% forage diet improves fatty acid composition of lamb fat and prevents the trans-10 shifted biohydrogenation pathways	35

Climatic impact on ram lamb reproductive development: the effect of solar radiation	34
Animal board invited review: Quantification of resilience in farm animals	33
Longitudinal pattern of growth performance and feeding behaviour in pigs fed varying dietary crude protein levels and categorised by final feed efficiency	32
Editorial: Selected keynote lectures of the 76th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (Innsbruck, Austria)	30
Effects of group size on agonistic interactions in dairy cows: a descriptive study	30
Estimation of the genetic parameters of sheep growth traits based on machine vision acquisition	30
Review: Towards an integrated concept of animal welfare	30
Animal board invited review: A biocultural perspective of animal farming systems in Europe	30
Effect of postweaning feed intake on performance, intestinal morphology, and the probability of diarrhoea in piglets	29
Review: Environmental enrichment builds functional capacity and improves resilience as an aspect of positive welfare in production animals	29
Short communication: Temporal profiles of colostrum and milk haptoglobin and substance P in early lactation multiparous Holstein cows	29
PhenoBR: a model to phenotype body condition dynamics in meat sheep	28
Editorial Board	28
Octopamine alters yellow mealworm body composition	28
QTL detection in multi-breed cattle populations including crossbred animals: a simulation study	28
Effect of lowering dietary crude protein with different protein sources on growth performance, litter characteristics, and nitrogen balance in broiler chickens	28
Editorial Board	27
Title Page	27
Genome-wide association study and enrichment analysis for clinical health traits in Holstein-Friesian cattle	27
Editorial Board	27
Measuring bioavailability, utilization, and excretion of rumen-protected lysine in lactating cows using an isotope technique	26
Promoting sow-piglet information transfer and playful foraging by changes in pen design and feeding strategy to ease weaning: effects on pig performance and behaviour	26
Effects of rumen-protected 5-hydroxytryptophan on circulating serotonin concentration, behaviour, and mammary gland involution in goats	26
Effects of reducing copper and zinc supplementation on the performance and mineral status of fattening pigs	26
Sea buckthorn oil and 2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio) butanoate as potential regulators of milk fat depression in sheep. Effects on mammary and ruminal fatty acid metabolism	26
The GH/IGF1 axis in the kidney of young goats fed a protein-reduced diet	25
Genome-wide association studies uncover genes associated with litter traits in the pig	25
A practical approach to assess the resilience attributes of livestock farms	25
Review: Food safety risks and their implications for the pork industry	25
Effect of outdoor grazing-area access time and enrichment on space and pasture use, behaviour, health and growth traits of weaned rabbits	24
How closely do ecosystem services and life cycle assessment frameworks concur when evaluating contrasting animal-production systems with ruminant or monogastric species?	24
Review: Peer social bonds in farm animals	24
Metabolomics and amino acid profiling of plasma reveals the metabolite profiles associated with nitrogen utilisation efficiency in primiparous dairy cows	24
Review: Effect of breeding strategies, feeding and manure management, to mitigate methane emissions in dairy cattle farming: an overview and the road ahead	24
Phenotypic and genetic parameters of feed efficiency in Charolais bulls – Part 1. Correlations across test station and field conditions under contrasting fattening diets	24
Early human contact and housing for pigs – part 2: resilience to routine husbandry practices	23
A field approach to observing changes in behavioural welfare indicators over 2 years in stabled horses	23
Review: The roles of individuality and social life in shaping positive animal welfare in livestock species	23
Short communication: The persistent influence of host lineage on the gut microbiomes of black soldier fly and yellow mealworm	23
Re-evaluating critical thermoregulatory thresholds in fattening pigs: identifying the impact of sex, weight, sire line, space allowance and floor type	23
Effects of live yeast on milk yield, feed efficiency, methane emissions and fertility of high-yielding dairy cows	23
Died, euthanised, slaughtered or alive? outcomes for 10 023 Ayrshire and Holstein cows and associations between veterinary treatments and mortality	23
Review: Reproductive consequences of whole-body adaptations of dairy cattle to heat stress	23
Resilience of milk production to nutritional challenges in mid-lactation Charolais cows is not associated with feed efficiency	22
Supplementation with N-carbamylglutamate benefits lactation performance, rumen microbiota and reduces methane emissions in dairy cows	22
Evaluating the effect of phenolic compounds as hydrogen acceptors when ruminal methanogenesis is inhibited in vitro – Part 2. Dairy goats	22
Editorial Board	21
Review: Rethinking environmental enrichment as providing opportunities to acquire information	21
Genome-wide scans for selection signatures in indigenous chickens reveal candidate genes associated with local adaptation	21
Animal board invited review: Benefits of livestock and animal-source foods in developing countries	21

Genetic relationships of body condition score and locomotion with production, type and fertility traits in Holstein-Friesian cows	20
Udder health-related traits in cow milk: phenotypic variability and effect on milk yield and composition	20
From sewage sludge ash to a recycled feed phosphate – digestibility of precipitated calcium phosphate in broiler chickens and growing pigs	20
Comparative evaluation of phenotypic, pedigree, and family-based selection in insect breeding using stochastic simulation	20
How does a superior quality sign guarantee the quality of lamb meat? The Label Rouge case	19
Variation in piglet body weight gain and feed intake during a 9-week lactation in a multi-suckling system	19
Whole genome sequencing reveals that five genes are related to BW trait in sheep	19
Identifying selection strategies based on the practices and preferences of small ruminant farmers to improve the sustainability of their breeding systems	19
Maternal chromium supplementation increases lamb weaning weight and modulates rumen microbiota	19
Editorial Board	19
Potential of faecal NIRS for predicting methane emissions in dairy cows supplemented with 3-nitrooxypropanol	18
Editorial Board	18
Effects of genomic estimated breeding value and dietary energy to protein ratio on growth performance, carcass trait, and lipogenic gene expression in Hanwoo steer	18
Genome-wide association study of health and production traits in meat sheep	18
Dairy vs beef production – expert views on welfare of cattle in common food production systems	18
Modulating the fatty acid composition of black soldier fly larvae via substrate fermentation	18
Exogenous porcine somatotropin administered to late pregnant gilts alters liver and muscle functionalities in pig foetuses	18
Review: In vitro and ex vivo models advancing the study of host-microbiota interactions across organ systems in farm animals	18
Unravelling novel and closely linked association signals for fat-related traits in pigs using prioritised variants from whole-genome sequence data	18
A meta-analysis on use of agro-industrial by-products rich in polyphenols in dairy small ruminant nutrition	18
Review: Insects as a novel feed ingredient: processing technologies, quality and safety considerations	18
Editorial Board	18
Eimeria maxima infection impacts the protein utilisation of broiler chicks from 14 to 28 days of age	18
Drawing the line: comparing zone-specific spatial behaviour of heifers on pasture with virtual and physical fences	18
Differential voluntary feed intake and whole transcriptome profiling in the hypothalamus of young sheep offered CP and phosphorus-deficient diets	17
GrassGroTM simulation of pasture, animal performance and greenhouse emissions on low and high sheep productivity grazing systems: 1-year validation and 25-year analysis	17
A high-precision facial recognition method for small-tailed Han sheep based on an optimised Vision Transformer	17
Yellow mealworm: effects of adults breeding density on adults and larvae performances from an industrial perspective	17
Weaned horses, especially females, still prefer their dam after five months of separation	17
Effects of preferential social associations on pigs’ response to weaning	17
Implications of supplementing mid-lactation multiparous Holstein cows fed high by-product low-forage diets with rumen-protected methionine and lysine in a commercial dairy	17
Knowledge, attitude and behaviour of farmers towards the use of reproductive hormones in dairy cattle	17
Genome-wide association studies of parasite resistance, productivity and immunology traits in Scottish Blackface sheep	17
Indicators of resilience in cattle based on test-day milk yield: comparison of within- and between-lactation and their relationship with milk production	17
Predictive ability and mediation effects of the rumen microbiome on feed efficiency and methane traits in Hereford beef cattle	17
Progestogen priming is not essential to trigger ovulation in seasonal anoestrus ewes injected twice with a synthetic kisspeptin analogue	17
Multifaceted analysis of temporal and spatial distribution and risk factors of global poultry HPAI-H5N1, 2005–2023	17
Genomic prediction accuracy for five economically important traits in cashmere goats across single-nucleotide polymorphism densities and methods	16
Rumen fermentation parameters and papillae development in Simmental growing bulls with divergent residual feed intake	16
Review: Pig-based bioconversion: the use of former food products to keep nutrients in the food chain	16
Influence of precision feeding of sows over three consecutive gestations adjusted for energy, amino acids and minerals on sow performances and a marker of bone resorption	16
Functional metabolic capacity of pig colonocytes is differentially modulated by fermentable fibre and poorly digestible protein	16
A preliminary study on the feasibility of two different cow-calf contact systems in a pasture-based, seasonal calving dairy system: effects on cow production and health	16
Review: Feeding strategies for rearing replacement dairy goats – from birth to kidding	16
Variability in chewing, ruminal fermentation, digestibility and bacterial communities between subacute ruminal acidosis-susceptible and acidosis-tolerant sheep	16
Temporal dynamics of bromoform metabolite formation and microbial responses during in vitro rumen fermentation with Asparagopsis taxiformis	16
Associations between subclinical intramammary infection and milk fatty acid profile at the quarter level in Holstein cattle	16
Review: The role of male reproductive tract secretions in ruminant fertility	16
Animal and pasture responses in contrasting temperate pasture-based cattle management systems: set-stocking versus cell grazing	16
Implementing an appropriate metric for the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production: A national case study	16
An integrated individual-based model of transmission, clinical outcomes, and economic impact of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection in a commercial pig fattening unit	16
Principles, barriers and enablers to agroecological animal production systems: a qualitative approach based on five case studies	15
Factors affecting the accuracy of genomic prediction in joint pig populations	15
Editorial Board	15
Transformation of animal agriculture should be evidence-driven and respectful of livestock’s benefits and contextual aspects	15
Imputation of single nucleotide polymorphism genotypes in ungenotyped sport horses from the genotypes of their progeny	15
Integrative metagenomic and metabolomic profiling identifies faecal biomarkers of prolonged social stress in pigs	15
A new approach and insights on modelling the impact of production diseases on dairy cow welfare	15
Animal board invited review: The need to consider emissions, economics and pig welfare in the transition from farrowing crates to pens with loose lactating sows	15
Review: Keystone issues in ruminant science II. Environmental impact of ruminants: methane emissions and rangeland degradation	15
Thankyou to reviewers, 2025	15
Feeding predictability as a cognitive enrichment protects brain function and physiological status in rainbow trout: a multidisciplinary approach to assess fish welfare	14
Opinion Paper: Working on alternative methods in experimental animal sciences. Experience from the case of fistulated ruminants	14
Review: Nutritional, safety, and environmental aspects of former foodstuff products in ruminant feeding	14
Review: Keystone issues in ruminant science I. Feed intake control in ruminants	14
The perceived lock-ins of dairy farmers during sustainability transition	14
Review: Role of early life nutrition in regulating sexual development in bulls	14
Temporary versus permanent crating: free movement of mother sow enhances piglet play behaviour	14
First report of the apparent metabolisable energy value of black soldier fly larvae fat used in broiler chicken diets	14
Development of an innovative intravaginal model of probiotic inoculation in dairy ovine flocks: positive effects on the vaginal microbiota, vaginitis and fertility	14
Review: Feed efficiency and metabolic flexibility in livestock	14
Genomic-based animal management in the early- and late-finishing system of Hanwoo cattle	14
Signatures of selection analyses reveal genomic differences among three heavy pig breeds that constitute the genetic backbone of a dry-cured ham production system	14
Training of transport drivers improves their handling of pigs during loading for transport to slaughter	14
Review: The prevailing mathematical modeling classifications and paradigms to support the advancement of sustainable animal production	14
Postweaning growth and feeding behaviour in pigs: effect of heavier hybrid and weaning intact litters in farrowing pens for loose-housed sows	14
Editorial Board	13
Assessing genotype-by-environment interaction in dairy cattle in case of a wide range of production environments, unstructured crossbreeding and no pedigree information	13
Aims and Scope	13
Defatted black soldier fly larvae meal as a substitute of soybean meal in dairy cow diets	13

Review: Harmonised in vitro digestion and the Ussing chamber for investigating the effects of polyphenols on intestinal physiology in monogastrics and ruminants	13
Inclusion of silage in diets to fattening pigs: effect on gastric ulcers and skin lesions	13
Reproductive performance of rabbit females from three paternal lines with a different potential for growth rate and resilience	13
Influence of body lesion severity on oxidative status and gut microbiota of weaned pigs	13
Storing live black soldier fly larvae: the influence of temperature and storage techniques	13
The walnut tree as a source of progesterone for reproductive control in goats	13
Review: Multiobject tracking in livestock − from farm animal management to state-of-the-art methods	13
Exploring individual responses to welfare issues in growing-finishing pig feeding behaviour	13
Genetic analysis of phenotypic indicators for heat tolerance in crossbred dairy cattle	13
Review: Bovine foetal mortality – risk factors, causes, immune responses and immuno-prophylaxis	13
Short communication: In ovo injection of all-trans retinoic acid causes adipocyte hypertrophy in embryos but lost its effect in posthatch chickens	13
Effect of increased intake of concentrates and sodium butyrate supplementation on reticulorumen macroanatomy and reticulorumen fermentation in growing rams	13
Estimating risk probabilities for sickness from behavioural patterns to identify health challenges in dairy cows with multivariate cumulative sum control charts	13
Repeatability and genetic parameters for phenotypes of methane emission in crossbred beef × dairy slaughter calves	13
Review: Fundamentals, limitations and pitfalls on the development and application of precision nutrition techniques for precision livestock farming	13
Predicting feed efficiency traits in growing lambs from their ruminal microbiota	13
The impact of work organisation on the work life of people on pasture-based dairy farms	13
Corrigendum to “Effect of dietary protein and energy intake on embryonic survival and gene expression in the uterine endometrium of early pregnant gilts” [Animal 16(6) (2022) 100540]	13
Multi-omics in vitro study of the salivary modulation of the goat rumen microbiome	12
Loss of a grooming enrichment impacts physical, behavioural, and physiological measures of welfare in grazing beef cattle	12
The candidate gene OLFML2A possibly contributed to the variation of total number of teats in Meishan and Erhualian pigs by influencing the formation of mammary placodes	12
Review: Early and late determinants of puberty in ruminants and the role of nutrition	12
Methane, growth and carcase considerations when breeding for more efficient Merino sheep production	12
Live black soldier fly larvae as environmental enrichment for native chickens: implications for bird performance, welfare, and excreta microbiota	12
Feeding biochar to high-yielding dairy cows: effects on feed intake, milk performance, feed efficiency, blood variables and on rumen fermentation in vitro and in vivo	12
Editorial: Challenges of food and feed for the future	12
Title page	12
Behavioural and physiological responses of Small Tail Han sheep to predators	12
The effect of first-lactation calving season, milk production, and morphology on the survival of Simmental cows	12
Key determinants of adaptive strategies of goats to a 2-day nutritional challenge during early lactation	12
Animal board invited review: Opportunities and challenges in using GWP* to report the impact of ruminant livestock on global temperature change	12
Review: Towards the next-generation models of the rumen microbiome for enhancing predictive power and guiding sustainable production strategies	12
Review: Current status of corpus luteum assessment by Doppler ultrasonography to diagnose non-pregnancy and select embryo recipients in cattle	12
Lysine requirement of weaned piglets	12
Water consumption and wastage behaviour in pigs: implications for antimicrobial administration and stewardship	12
Editorial Board	12
Direct and carry-over effect of grassland herbage allowance on metabolic hormones and reproduction in primiparous beef cows undergoing temporary weaning and flushing	12
Title page	12
Assessment of flax and hemp fibres in terms of their impact on the growth performance and health status of weaned piglets	12
Random regression modelling of genetic covariance when data are available for litters: an application in mice	12
Steering protein fermentation by adding fibres in pig diets	12
Interactions between broiler parent stock age and egg pre-incubation duration: effects on embryo development, hatchability, day-old chick weight, and yolk sac weight	12
Starter protein content and supplemental soybean oil or hydrogenated palm fatty acids in Holstein dairy calves: growth performance, protozoa population, and nitrogen utilization efficiency	12
Assessing heat tolerance through productive vs physiological indicators. Data from dairy sheep under on-farm conditions	12
Review: Early life piglet experiences and impacts on immediate and longer-term adaptability	12
Growth rate, either through genetics or diet, mainly determines the outcome concerning broiler welfare	12
Short communication: Predicting blood plasma non-esterified fatty acid and beta-hydroxybutyrate concentrations from cow milk—addressing systematic issues in modelling	12
Editorial Board	12
Intramammary administration of lipopolysaccharides at parturition enhances immunoglobulin concentration in goat colostrum	12
Partially replacing baleage with grazed forage canola in a component feeding system: Effects on production performance, enteric methane emissions, and nutrient utilization in dairy cows	11
Evaluation of type traits in relation to production, and their importance in early selection for milk performance in dairy buffaloes	11
The genetic relationship between feed efficiency and host resistance to parasites: insights from experimental infections in ewe lambs from divergent lines	11
Improving genomic prediction accuracy of pig reproductive traits based on genotype imputation using preselected markers with different imputation platforms	11
Enteric methane emissions from zebu cattle are influenced by seasonal variations in rangeland fodder quality and intake	11
Short communication: The orientation of cubicles plays a role – greater deviation from the north–south direction, more technopathies in dairy cows	11
Impact of adding eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acid-rich fish oil in sow and piglet diets on blood oxylipins and immune indicators of weaned piglets	11
Influence of dairy farmers’ knowledge on their attitudes towards breeding tools and genomic selection	11
Breeding options for nematode resistance in Lacaune dairy sheep	11
Editorial Board	11
Particle size of straw and gelation of pectin influence gastric mixing and emptying in pigs	11
Review: Tail lesions in dairy cows − a summary of what’s new about the old	11
Sustainable cattle breeding through the genomic diversity index	11
Short communication: Accuracy of whole-genome sequence imputation in Angus cattle using within-breed and multi breed reference populations	11
Fluorometric determination of isocitrate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.42; 1; NADP+ dependent) in ruminant milk	11
Reducing foreign genetic contributions to the YDH pig population by segment-based advanced optimum contribution selection	11
Population structure and genetic diversity of Polish Arabian horses based on pedigree data	11
Chlorine dioxide may be an alternative to acidification and chlorination for drinking water chemical disinfection in dairy beef bulls	11
The impact of Box-Cox transformation on phenotypic and genomic characteristics of litter size variability in Landrace pigs	11
Development and validation of a model for early prediction of residual feed intake in beef cattle using plasma biomarkers	11
Title page	11
Farmers’ motivational profiles for providing outdoor access to pigs	11
Review: Insect diseases in mass production systems: Risks, prevention, diagnostics and management	11
Effect of dietary betaine on apparent digestibility of nutrients, production performance, and serum parameters of dairy goats during the periparturient period	11
Effects of heat stress mitigation strategies on feedlot cattle performance, environmental, and economic outcomes in a hot climate	11
Review: Additives delivery through drinking water to support gut health in swine and poultry — a systematic literature review	11
Impact of dietary exogenous feed enzymes on performance, nutrient digestibility, and ruminal fermentation parameters in beef cattle: a meta-analysis	11
Title page	11
The effects of incorporating sprouted barley in diets of high-yielding dairy cows on production, efficiency, and nutrient digestibility	11
Review: A barnyard in the lab: prospect of generating animal germ cells for breeding and conservation	11
A framework to estimate the environmentally attainable intake of dairy cows in constraining environments	11
Effects of dietary methionine supplementation from different sources on growth performance and meat quality of barrows and gilts	10
Estimation of inbreeding, between-breed genomic relatedness and definition of sub-populations in red-pied cattle breeds	10
Review: The putative role of Progesterone Receptor membrane Component 1 in bovine oocyte development and competence	10
Review: Understanding cattle social behaviour in modern penned production systems with AI technology: Are we tracking welfare indicators?	10
Editorial Board	10
Effects of dietary supplementation of estradiol-17β during fry stage on growth, physiological and immune parameters and gonadal gene expression in adult snakeskin gourami	10
Review: Progress in producing chimeric ungulate livestock for agricultural applications	10
Early human contact and housing for pigs − part 1: responses to humans, novelty and isolation	10
A genome-wide perspective on the diversity and selection signatures in indigenous goats using 53 K single nucleotide polymorphism array	10
Editorial Board	10
Review: Composition and utilisation of feed by monogastric animals in the context of circular food production systems	10
Effects of the physical form of starter feed on the intake, performance, and health of female Holstein calves	10
Feed balances for ruminant livestock: gridded estimates for data−constrained regions	10
Sponsor page	10
Editorial − Advancing pig production: Insights from the 19th biennial Manipulating pig production conference	10