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IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/S1751-7311(25)00290-3
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Effects of grass silage-based feeding strategies and carcass weight on performance and environmental impacts of finishing beef on dairy crossbred heifers 青贮饲喂策略和胴体重对育肥牛生产性能和环境影响的影响
IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2025.101676
K. Manni , S. Hietala , M. Pesonen , A. Huuskonen
When targeting low-carbon feed production and feeding cattle with non-human-edible feeds, in practice, this means maximising the use of forages such as grass. However, there is a gap in knowledge of the environmental impacts when carcass weight increases and/or concentrate is excluded from grass silage (GS)-based diet. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of two different GS−based diets and three carcass weights on performance and environmental impacts of growing heifers. The experiment was conducted using 84 crossbred heifers (Holstein or Nordic Red × Blonde d’Aquitaine). Two experimental diets were GS alone (GSA) and GS supplemented with barley grain (285 g/kg DM; GSB). Both diets contained a mineral-vitamin mixture (15 g/kg DM). The heifers were fed total mixed rations ad libitum. The animals were slaughtered at three BWs, targeting carcass weights of 300 (LCW), 325 (MCW) or 350 (HCW) kg. Life cycle assessment approach was used to compare climate change, eutrophication, and acidification impacts for both feeding treatments across three carcass weights. The experimental treatments had no effects on daily DM intake, but total DM intake was 13% higher for the GSA compared to GSB (P < 0.001) and 37% higher for HCW compared to LCW (P < 0.001). Barley grain supplementation increased daily energy intake by 14% (P < 0.001). Excluding barley grain from the diet decreased carcass gain by 20% (P < 0.001). Feed conversion (kg DM/kg carcass gain) declined when barley grain was excluded from the diet (P < 0.001). Carcass weight had no effect on growth rate and feed conversion. For GSA, the dressing proportion was 3% (P < 0.001) and carcass conformation 11% (P = 0.018) lower compared to GSB, but they were not affected by carcass weight. For carcass fat score, feeding × carcass weight quadratic interaction was observed (P < 0.016). Compared to GSA, GSB animals were fatter and carcass fat cover was affected to a greater extent by carcass weight. At the same carcass weight, the climate change impact of GSB was 10–11%, eutrophication potential 13–15%, and acidification potential 20–23% lower compared to GSA. Increasing carcass weight raised all impacts by 4–9% per functional unit within both dietary treatments. For all carcass weights, GSB showed consistently lower environmental impacts than GSA. In conclusion, including concentrate in the diet improved performance of the heifers and decreased environmental impacts.
在实践中,当以低碳饲料生产为目标,用非人类食用饲料喂养牛时,这意味着最大限度地利用草等牧草。然而,对于胴体重增加和/或精料被排除在以草青贮(GS)为基础的日粮之外对环境的影响,人们的认识还存在空白。本研究旨在评价两种不同的gs型饲粮和3种胴体重对生长期母牛生产性能和环境影响的影响。试验选用84头杂交小母牛(荷斯坦或北欧红×金发阿基坦)。试验饲粮为单用GS (GSA)和添加大麦粒(285 g/kg DM; GSB)的GS。两种饲粮均含有矿物质-维生素混合物(15 g/kg DM)。这些小母牛被随意饲喂全混合口粮。动物在3个胴体体重时屠宰,胴体体重分别为300 (LCW)、325 (MCW)和350 (HCW) kg。采用生命周期评估方法比较气候变化、富营养化和酸化对3个胴体体重的影响。试验处理对每日干物质摄入量没有影响,但GSA的总干物质摄入量比GSB高13% (P
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Do early life experiences influence ear necrosis development in weaned pigs? 早期生活经历是否影响断奶仔猪耳坏死的发展?
IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2025.101675
L. Markland , K. O’Driscoll , F.C. Leonard , L.A. Boyle
Ear necrosis is a welfare concern in weaned pigs but there is poor understanding of the causes and risk factors, including the role of potentially stressful management practices such as handling and mixing. The study investigated the effect of frequent handling prior to weaning and mixing at weaning on ear necrosis development up to 43 days postweaning. The early life stress associated with handling, and ear scratches associated with mixing aggression were hypothesised to increase the risk of ear necrosis. At farrowing, litters (N = 37) were randomly assigned to either a Control (n = 18; 239 piglets) or Handled (n = 19; 271 piglets) treatment. Control piglets were handled 3 times from birth to weaning for routine weighing and processing procedures, whereas Handled piglets were weighed an additional 5 times during the same period. At 28 days of age, pigs were weaned into 36 mixed-sex pens as either Un-mixed (litter groups; n = 18 206 pigs) or Mixed (housed with pigs from multiple litters; n = 18 204 pigs). Preweaning, diarrhoea scores and faecal cortisol levels were assessed. Ear scratches were counted at 24 h postweaning, and ear necrosis was scored weekly from 0 (none) to 5 (substantial degradation and loss of the ear pinna). Pre- and postweaning growth was measured. Handling resulted in higher diarrhoea scores preweaning and a higher prevalence of mild ear necrosis postweaning, but there was no difference in faecal cortisol levels, moderate to severe ear necrosis, or tail lesions. Although Mixed pigs had a greater number of ear scratches, there was a higher prevalence of ear necrosis in the Un-mixed group. At the individual pig level, and irrespective of treatment, ear scratches at weaning were not associated with subsequent ear necrosis. While neither the preweaning nor postweaning treatments impacted growth, pigs with ear necrosis had lower average daily gain than pigs without. In conclusion, results suggest that scratches caused by weaning aggression do not play a role in the aetiology of ear necrosis. Although handling led to more pigs affected with mild ear necrosis, multiple factors are likely to play a role in overall ear necrosis development and its progression to moderate and severe scores.
耳部坏死是断奶仔猪的福利问题,但对其原因和风险因素的了解甚少,包括处理和混合等潜在压力管理措施的作用。该研究调查了断奶前频繁处理和断奶时混合对断奶后43天耳坏死发展的影响。据推测,早期生活中与处理相关的压力以及与混合攻击相关的耳朵划伤会增加耳朵坏死的风险。分娩时,将37窝仔猪随机分为对照组(18头,239头)和处理组(19头,271头)。对照仔猪从出生到断奶期间被处理3次,进行常规称重和加工程序,而处理仔猪在同一时期被额外称重5次。28日龄时,将断奶仔猪送入36个混合型猪圈,分为非混合型(窝产组,n = 18 206头)和混合型(多窝产组,n = 18 204头)。评估断奶前、腹泻评分和粪便皮质醇水平。断奶后24小时计数耳部划伤,每周对耳部坏死进行评分,从0(无)到5(耳廓严重退化和丧失)。测定断奶前和断奶后的生长情况。处理导致断奶前腹泻评分较高,断奶后轻度耳部坏死发生率较高,但在粪便皮质醇水平、中度至重度耳部坏死或尾巴病变方面没有差异。虽然混合猪有更多的耳朵划伤,但未混合组的耳朵坏死发生率更高。在个体水平上,无论处理方式如何,断奶时耳朵划伤与随后的耳朵坏死无关。虽然断奶前和断奶后处理均不影响生长,但耳朵坏死猪的平均日增重低于未处理的猪。综上所述,断奶攻击引起的抓痕在耳部坏死的病因中不起作用。虽然处理导致更多的猪受到轻度耳部坏死的影响,但多种因素可能在整个耳部坏死的发展及其向中度和重度评分的进展中发挥作用。
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Patterns of plasma sexual steroids in Duroc and Pietrain crossbred male pigs in organic farming and prediction of boar taint risk according to slaughter weight 有机养殖中杜洛克和皮特兰杂交公猪血浆性类固醇的分布规律及根据屠宰体重预测公猪感染风险。
IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2025.101673
A. Prunier, B. Lebret
Boar taint risk in pork highly depends on fat tissue concentrations of androstenone and skatole, and indole to a lower extent. During pubertal development, androstenone is increasingly produced by testes and accumulates in fat tissues. Skatole and indole are produced and absorbed along in the colon and also accumulate in fat tissues. Skatole and indole are catabolised in the liver, but sexual steroids (including androstenone) inhibit their liver degradation. Therefore, slaughtering pigs before the pubertal peak of steroid production should reduce boar taint risk and thus make it possible to raise male pigs without inflicting detrimental castration. In the present experiment, non-castrated male pigs from two genotypes differing in their propensity to accumulate androstenone and skatole in backfat were compared: Large White × Duroc (D; n = 47) and Large White × Pietrain crossbreds (P; n = 34). Blood samples were drawn from the jugular vein two times during growth (at around 85 kg BW and 133 days of age, and around 105 kg BW and 153 days of age) and the day before slaughter (around 125 kg BW and 174 days of age). Plasma testosterone and 17β-oestradiol, whose concentrations increase during sexual development, were measured in all samples and correlated with backfat concentrations of androstenone, skatole and indole measured at slaughter. Plasma concentrations of both hormones increased (P < 0.05) from the first to the second, and from the second to the third sampling stage (P < 0.05). Plasma testosterone concentration did not differ between genotypes (P > 0.1) whereas plasma 17β-oestradiol was more than twice higher in D than in P pigs (P < 0.001) regardless of the age. Plasma 17β-oestradiol concentration measured the day before slaughter was highly correlated with backfat androstenone (r = 0.91, P < 0.001). Estimating backfat androstenone concentration from that of plasma 17β-oestradiol allowed to predict that reducing slaughter BW from more than 125 kg to less than 110 kg would reduce the percentage of carcasses with androstenone concentration above 1.7 µg/g liquid fat (severe threshold limit for boar taint) from 42 to 29% in D pigs and from 10 to 0% in P pigs, and with androstenone concentration above 3 µg/g (less severe limit for boar taint) from 19 to 7% in D pigs, whereas none of the P pigs would be above this limit regardless of the age. In conclusion, pig genotype and reducing slaughter BW (and age) are strong levers to avoid boar taint.
猪肉的公猪污染风险高度依赖于雄烯酮和粪臭素的脂肪组织浓度,吲哚的浓度较低。在青春期发育过程中,雄烯酮越来越多地由睾丸产生并在脂肪组织中积累。粪臭素和吲哚在结肠中产生和吸收,也在脂肪组织中积累。粪臭素和吲哚在肝脏中分解代谢,但性类固醇(包括雄烯酮)抑制它们在肝脏中的降解。因此,在类固醇激素分泌高峰期之前屠宰猪可以降低公猪感染的风险,从而可以在不进行有害阉割的情况下饲养公猪。在本试验中,比较了来自两种不同基因型的未阉割的公猪:大白×杜洛克(D; n = 47)和大白×皮特兰(P; n = 34),它们在背脂肪中积累雄烯酮和粪臭素的倾向不同。在生长期间(约85公斤体重和133日龄,以及约105公斤体重和153日龄)和屠宰前一天(约125公斤体重和174日龄)分别从颈静脉抽取两次血液样本。所有样本的血浆睾酮和17β-雌二醇的浓度在性发育过程中升高,并与屠宰时测定的雄烯酮、粪臭素和吲哚的背脂肪浓度相关。两种激素的血浆浓度均升高(P < 0.1),而血浆17β-雌二醇在D组比P组高2倍以上(P < 0.1)
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The impact of rainfall on beef cattle growth across diverse climate zones 降雨对不同气候带肉牛生长的影响。
IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.101336
F.M. Hasan , S. Lomax , P.C. Thomson , M.R. Islam , A. Chlingaryan , C.E.F. Clark
Genetics, animal husbandry, and the feedbase all impact cattle growth. Australia’s cattle feedbase covers 40% of the continent and encompasses diverse climates and landscapes, making stocking rate decisions challenging. Of the factors contributing to climate change, rainfall is a primary determinant of feedbase growth and, with this, cattle growth. Understanding the interplay between rainfall and cattle growth across the diverse Australian landscape is thus critical to aid farmer decision-making. However, revealing such interactions between landscape and rainfall for cattle growth for such decision-making has until now been infeasible due to a lack of sufficient temporal and spatial cattle growth data. The Optiweigh (OW) system has been deployed across Australia’s extensive beef production systems as a voluntary weighing unit, opportunistically monitoring cattle liveweight (LW). This study determined the impact of rainfall on the temporal and spatial variability of beef cattle growth across three of Australia’s agro-climatic zones (grassland, subtropical, and temperate), aiming to describe the diverse feedbase through patterns of LW variability. A total of 1.3 million cattle LW observations were collected from 82 026 cattle over 2 years (2020–2022). Rainfall data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology were also collated for the closest meteorological station to each OW unit. Cattle LW average daily gain (ADG) was clustered by season and zone. A series of linear mixed models were used to examine ADG for each zone-season combination, with random effects for individual animals and farms, and fixed effects for climate zone and current and lagged rainfall. The overall mean ADG for the dataset was 0.68 kg/day, with greater growth variability between farms within a zone (SD: 0.349 ± 0.021 kg/day, estimate ± SE) than between cattle within a farm (SD: 0.229 ± 0.004 kg/day). This ADG variability can be partly attributed to the timing and amount of rainfall, with agro-climatic zones showing unique interactions between rainfall and ADG. Seasonal lagged rainfall effects were present in the grassland and temperate zones, while rainfall in the temperate zone had a year-round effect on cattle growth. Furthermore, season-wise lagged rainfall had mixed effects on ADG, whereas rainfall occurring in a season reduced growth in the same season across zones (P < 0.001). These findings provide valuable initial insights into the variability of ADG across the landscape over time and markedly improve our understanding of the interplay between climate and Australia’s diverse feedbase, contributing to improved management strategies.
遗传、畜牧业和饲养基础都会影响牛的生长。澳大利亚的牛群饲养基地占澳大利亚大陆面积的 40%,气候和地貌各不相同,因此决定牛群饲养量极具挑战性。在导致气候变化的各种因素中,降雨量是决定饲养基地增长的主要因素,也是决定牛群增长的主要因素。因此,了解降雨量与牛群生长在澳大利亚多样地貌中的相互作用,对于帮助牧场主做出决策至关重要。然而,由于缺乏足够的时空牛只生长数据,要揭示景观与降雨量之间的相互作用以促进牛只生长,迄今为止还不可行。Optiweigh(OW)系统已在澳大利亚广泛的牛肉生产系统中部署,作为一种自愿称重装置,适时监测牛的活重(LW)。这项研究确定了降雨量对澳大利亚三个农业气候区(草原区、亚热带区和温带区)肉牛生长时空变异性的影响,旨在通过活重变异模式描述多样化的饲养基础。在两年(2020-2022 年)的时间里,从 82 026 头牛身上共收集了 130 万个牛生长量观测数据。此外,还整理了澳大利亚气象局提供的距离每个 OW 单位最近的气象站的降雨量数据。牛的平均日增重(ADG)按季节和区域进行了分组。使用一系列线性混合模型来研究每个区域-季节组合的 ADG,其中动物个体和农场为随机效应,气候区、当前和滞后降雨量为固定效应。数据集的总体平均日增重为 0.68 千克/天,区内农场之间的生长变异性(SD:0.349 ± 0.021 千克/天,估计值 ± SE)大于农场内牛之间的生长变异性(SD:0.229 ± 0.004 千克/天)。ADG的变化可部分归因于降雨的时间和降雨量,农业气候区降雨与ADG之间存在独特的相互作用。草原区和温带地区存在季节性滞后降雨效应,而温带地区的降雨对牛的生长有全年的影响。此外,季节性滞后降雨量对平均日增重的影响不一,而降雨量出现在一个季节时会降低同一季节各区牛的生长(P
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Opinion paper: Ethical and equitable sharing of farm animal data requires stakeholder participation in data governance 意见文件:道德和公平的农场动物数据共享要求利益相关者参与数据治理。
IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2025.101683
H.F. Williamson , S. Hartley
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Review: Keystone issues in ruminant science II. Environmental impact of ruminants: methane emissions and rangeland degradation 综述:反刍动物科学中的关键问题2。反刍动物对环境的影响:甲烷排放和牧场退化。
IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2025.101554
M.M. Kothmann , W. Pittroff
Since the publication of the UN-FAO report on the environmental impact of livestock production in 2006, negative headlines seem to rule the public perception of ruminant livestock production. Two themes dominate this discussion: the emission of greenhouse gases, and the worldwide degradation of grazing resources. We show that currently used methods for source strength estimation in global methane budget models cannot produce independent estimates and therefore do not qualify as support of policy decisions. We further submit that there is no justification for the view that methane output by ruminants is a key priority area of research in ruminant nutrition. We review the history of methodology and application of vegetation monitoring on rangelands and its interaction with grazing management. We discuss some of the reasons why rangeland conservation management has become globally so divergent in its application scope and success, with widespread resource degradation observed worldwide. This is a critically relevant topic affecting a natural space occupying more than half of the global landmass, and constituting the most important feed resource for global livestock production. Achieving sustainable management of rangelands has been a challenge around the world throughout recorded history. The integrated management of grazing and prescribed fire as the keystone practices should be based on sound ecological principles and be supported by management-oriented decision−support tools. This has not been accomplished yet. In the past couple of centuries, historic grazing and fire regimes have been significantly disrupted worldwide, often in conjunction with excessive grazing, causing widespread rangeland degradation. These problems are linked to increasing human and livestock populations and changing cultures. Increasing human populations are also the key factor in the ever−expanding conversion of historic rangelands into rainfed crop production areas. These occur on semi-arid lands not allowing long-term sustainable use for crop production and consequently, they lead to extremely detrimental consequences for the environment and for the climate. With this paper, we introduce key concepts in rangeland monitoring to animal scientists in order to facilitate a deeper understanding of the current problems in conservation management of one of the most important resources for livestock production. We explore the problem of rangeland degradation related to livestock grazing and the role of rangeland management in providing solutions. We discuss how rangeland and animal management must be integrated to ensure long-term use of this resource, without which global livestock production would not be feasible.
自2006年联合国粮农组织关于畜牧业生产对环境影响的报告发表以来,负面新闻标题似乎主宰了公众对反刍动物畜牧业生产的看法。两个主题主导了这次讨论:温室气体的排放和全球范围内放牧资源的退化。我们表明,目前在全球甲烷预算模型中使用的源强度估计方法不能产生独立的估计,因此不能作为政策决策的支持。我们进一步认为,反刍动物的甲烷排放是反刍动物营养研究的一个关键优先领域的观点是没有理由的。本文综述了草地植被监测的方法、应用及其与放牧管理的相互作用。我们讨论了牧地保护管理在全球范围内的应用范围和成功差异如此之大的一些原因,并在全球范围内观察到广泛的资源退化。这是一个至关重要的相关话题,影响着占全球陆地面积一半以上的自然空间,并构成全球畜牧业生产最重要的饲料资源。实现牧场的可持续管理一直是全世界有史以来的一个挑战。以放牧和规定火综合管理为重点,应以良好的生态原则为基础,辅以以管理为导向的决策支持工具。这一点尚未实现。在过去的几个世纪里,历史上的放牧和火灾制度在世界范围内受到了严重破坏,往往与过度放牧相结合,造成了广泛的牧场退化。这些问题与人口和牲畜数量的增加以及文化的变化有关。不断增加的人口也是历史上不断扩大的牧场转变为雨养作物生产区的关键因素。这些情况发生在半干旱土地上,不允许长期可持续地用于作物生产,因此,它们对环境和气候造成极其有害的后果。本文向动物科学家介绍了牧场监测的关键概念,以帮助他们更深入地了解畜牧业生产中最重要的资源之一的保护管理中存在的问题。我们探讨了与放牧有关的牧场退化问题以及牧场管理在提供解决方案中的作用。我们将讨论如何将牧场和动物管理结合起来,以确保长期利用这一资源,否则全球畜牧业生产将不可行。
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Aims and Scope 目标及范围
IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/S1751-7311(25)00291-5
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Comprehensive analysis of inbreeding depression across growth, fertility, and survival traits in Limousine beef cattle 豪华肉牛生长、育性和生存性状近交抑制的综合分析。
IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2025.101672
S. Callegaro , F. Tiezzi , C. Maltecca , M.C. Fabbri , J.C. do Carmo Panetto , R. Bozzi
The Italian Limousine cattle population, with approximately 100 000 registered animals in the national herd book, plays a crucial role in the country’s national beef industry, being one of the most widely spread breeds in Italy. Maintaining genetic diversity is essential to prevent the negative consequences of inbreeding, which can reduce animal performance for economically important traits such as growth, fertility, and longevity. Traditional pedigree-based inbreeding estimates have been previously used, but genomic tools offer the possibility of greater precision. This study evaluated the effects of inbreeding and inbreeding depression on key performance traits in Limousine cattle, considering both pedigree- and genomic-based inbreeding coefficients. Phenotypic comparisons between animals with low and high inbreeding levels revealed a negative effect of inbreeding on growth traits, including birth weight, weaning weight, yearling weight, and average daily gain. These effects were observed regardless of the inbreeding estimation method. Fertility traits were largely unaffected, except for age at first calving, which increased with higher inbreeding. Longevity, measured by the probability of survival across parities, was significantly reduced in inbred animals. Genomic inbreeding showed a greater impact on animals’ fertility and longevity. Notably, when separating recent and ancient genomic inbreeding, the former had a more pronounced effect on growth traits. Similarly, recent inbreeding primarily impacted animal longevity. Genomic inbreeding coefficients provided more granular insights into inbreeding depression, allowing for a better identification of individuals at higher risk of performance reduction. The results highlight the detrimental effects of inbreeding on growth, fertility, and longevity in Limousine cattle, which could have implications for herd productivity and genetic diversity. The study underscores the importance of genomic tools to monitor and manage inbreeding levels. Implementing strategies to control inbreeding accumulation is vital for maintaining genetic variability and ensuring the long-term sustainability of beef cattle populations.
意大利豪华牛的人口,在国家牧群名册上大约有10万头登记的牛,在该国的国家牛肉产业中起着至关重要的作用,是意大利最广泛传播的品种之一。保持遗传多样性对于防止近亲繁殖的负面后果至关重要,近亲繁殖会降低动物在经济上重要性状(如生长、生育力和寿命)方面的表现。传统的基于家系的近交估计以前已经使用过,但是基因组工具提供了更高精度的可能性。本研究考虑了基于家系和基因组的近交系数,评估了近交和近交抑制对豪华牛关键性能性状的影响。低近交水平和高近交水平动物的表型比较显示近交对生长性状的负面影响,包括初生体重、断奶体重、初生体重和平均日增重。无论近交估计方法如何,都观察到这些效应。除了首次产犊的年龄(随近亲繁殖的增加而增加)外,生育性状基本上没有受到影响。以胎次存活率衡量的寿命,在近亲繁殖的动物中显著减少。基因组近亲繁殖对动物的生育能力和寿命影响较大。值得注意的是,当将近代和古代基因组近亲繁殖分开时,前者对生长性状的影响更为明显。同样,最近的近亲繁殖主要影响动物的寿命。基因组近交系数为近交抑制提供了更细致的见解,从而可以更好地识别出表现下降风险较高的个体。研究结果强调了近亲繁殖对豪华牛生长、生育力和寿命的不利影响,这可能对牛群生产力和遗传多样性产生影响。这项研究强调了基因组工具对监测和管理近亲繁殖水平的重要性。实施控制近交积累的战略对于维持遗传变异和确保肉牛种群的长期可持续性至关重要。
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Review: Herbivory and the power of phytochemical diversity on animal health 回顾:食草动物和植物化学多样性对动物健康的影响
IF 4.2 2区 农林科学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.101287
J.J. Villalba , R.D. Ramsey , S. Athanasiadou
Plant secondary compounds (PSCs) were thought to be waste products of plant metabolism when first identified in the mid-1800 s. Since then, many different roles have been recognized for these chemicals. With regard to their function as defense, PSCs can negatively impact different cellular and metabolic processes in the herbivore, causing illness and reductions in feed intake. This penalty on fitness also applies to other trophic levels, like the microorganisms and parasites that infect herbivores and thus, PSCs at certain doses may function as medicines. In turn, herbivores evolved learning mechanisms to cope with the constant variability in their environment and physiological needs. Under this context, foraging can be viewed as the quest for substances in the external environment that provide homeostatic utility to the animal. For instance, herbivores increase preference for PSC-containing feeds that negatively impact infectious agents (i.e., therapeutic self-medication). Given that some classes of PSCs like polyphenols present antioxidant, antiinflammatory, immunomodulatory and prebiotic properties, chronic and sustained consumption of these chemicals results in robust animals that are tolerant to disease (i.e., prophylactic self-medication). Foraging plasticity in terms of the quality and quantity of nutrients ingested in the absence and during sickness may also influence immunocompetence, resistance and resilience to infection, and thus can be interpreted as another form of medication. Finally, self-medicative behaviors can be transmitted through social learning. We suggest that foraging studies will benefit from exploring self-medicative behaviors in chemically diverse plant communities, in particular when considering the vast diversity of PSC structures (more than 200 000) observed in nature. We then lay out a framework for enhancing the medicinal effects of PSCs on grazing herbivores. We propose landscape interventions through the establishment of resource patches or “islands” with a diversity of PSC-containing forages (e.g., legumes, herbs, shrubs) in monotonous rangelands or pasturelands, viewed as a “sea” of low-diversity vegetation devoid of functional biochemicals. Strategies aimed at enhancing the diversity of plant communities lead to heterogeneity in chemical, structural and functional landscape traits that offer options to foragers, and thus allow for balanced diets that maintain and restore health. Beyond animal health, such heterogeneity promotes a broad array of ecosystem services that significantly improve landscape resilience to environmental disturbances.
植物次生化合物()在 1800 年代中期首次被发现时,被认为是植物新陈代谢的废物。从那时起,人们就认识到了这些化学物质的许多不同作用。在防御功能方面,植物次生化合物会对食草动物的不同细胞和新陈代谢过程产生负面影响,导致疾病和摄食量减少。这种对适应性的惩罚也适用于其他营养级,如感染食草动物的微生物和寄生虫,因此,在一定剂量下,PSCs 可以起到药物的作用。反过来,食草动物也进化出了学习机制,以应对环境和生理需求的不断变化。在这种情况下,觅食可被视为在外部环境中寻找能为动物提供平衡效用的物质。例如,食草动物会更加偏好对感染性病原体有负面影响的含有 PSC 的饲料(即治疗性自我药疗)。鉴于多酚等某些类别的植物生长调节物质具有抗氧化、抗炎、免疫调节和益生元等特性,长期持续食用这些化学物质会使动物变得强壮,对疾病具有耐受力(即预防性自我药疗)。在没有生病和生病期间,觅食在摄入营养物质的质量和数量方面的可塑性也可能影响免疫能力、抵抗力和对感染的复原力,因此也可以被解释为另一种形式的药物治疗。最后,自我医疗行为可以通过社会学习传播。我们认为,觅食研究将受益于在化学多样性植物群落中探索自我药疗行为,特别是考虑到在自然界中观察到的 PSC 结构的巨大多样性(超过 20 万种)。然后,我们提出了一个框架,以增强植物生长调节剂对食草动物的药用效果。我们建议采取景观干预措施,在单调的牧场或草场上建立资源斑块或 "岛屿",这些资源斑块或 "岛屿 "中含有多种含有植物生长调节物质的牧草(如豆科植物、草本植物、灌木),而单调的牧场或草场则被视为缺乏功能性生化物质的低多样性植被的 "海洋"。旨在提高植物群落多样性的战略可导致化学、结构和功能景观特征的异质性,为觅食者提供选择,从而实现平衡膳食,保持和恢复健康。除动物健康外,这种异质性还能促进一系列生态系统服务,大大提高景观对环境干扰的适应能力。
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