BookGuoyao Wu, editor.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Nutrition and Metabolism: Foundations for Animal Growth, Development, Reproduction, and Health
Chapter 2: Insights into the Regulation of Implantation and Placentation in Humans, Rodents, Sheep, and Pigs
Chapter 3: A Role for Fructose Metabolism in Development of Sheep and Pig Conceptuses
Chapter 4: Nutritional Regulation of Embryonic Survival, Growth and Development
Chapter 5: Phosphate, Calcium, and Vitamin D: Key Regulators of Fetal and Placental Development in Mammals
Chapter 6: Nutritional and Physiological Regulation of Water Transport in the Conceptus
Chapter 7: Amino Acids in Microbial Metabolism and Function
Chapter 8: Potential Replacements for Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Poultry: Interactions at the Gut Level and their Impact on Host Immunity
Chapter 9: Microbiomes in the Intestine of Developing Pigs: Implications for Nutrition and Health
Chapter 10: L-Arginine Nutrition and Metabolism in Ruminants
Chapter 11: Hepatic Glucose Metabolism and Its Disorders in Fish
Chapter 12: Protein-Sourced Feedstuffs for Aquatic Animals
Chapter 13: Functional Molecules of Intestinal Mucosal Products in Animal Nutrition and Health
Chapter 14: Use of Genome Editing Techniques to Produce Transgenic Farm Animals
Chapter 15: Cows as Bioreactors for the Production of Nutritionally and Biomedically Significant Proteins
Chapter 16: Use of Agriculturally Important Animals as Models in Biomedical Research
Chapter 17: Pigs (Sus Scrofa) in Biomedical Research.