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Managing the Prenatal Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Managing the Prenatal Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Prenatal life is the period of maximal development in animals, and
it is well recognised that factors that alter development can have
profound effects on the embryonic, fetal and postnatal animal.
Scientists involved in research on livestock productivity have for
decades studied postnatal consequences of fetal development on
productivity. Recently, however, there has been a surge in interest
in how to manage prenatal development to enhance livestock health
and productivity. This has occurred largely due to the studies that
show human health in later life can be influenced by events during
prenatal life, and establishment of the Fetal Origins and the
Thrifty Phenotype Hypotheses. This book, Managing the Prenatal
Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity reviews phenotypic
consequences of prenatal development, and provides details of
mechanisms that underpin these effects in ruminants, pigs and
poultry. The chapters have been divided into three parts:
Quantification of prenatal effects on postnatal productivity,
mechanistic bases of postnatal consequences of prenatal development
and regulators of fetal and neonatal nutrient supply. Managing the
Prenatal Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity is a
reference from which future research to improve the level of
understanding and capacity to enhance productivity, health and
efficiency of livestock in developing and developed countries will
evolve. It is particularly timely given the development of
molecular technologies that are providing new insight into
regulation and consequences of growth and development of the
embryo, fetus and neonate.
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