New Nutrition Strategies: Prenatal and Postnatal Growth in Livestock Animals

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Special Issue entitled “New Nutrition Strategies: Prenatal and Postnatal Growth in Livestock Animals” will compile innovative and outstanding research on animal growth processes and the effects of nutrition on it in production animals intended for human consumption.

Human beings have a specific demand for nutrients under essential phases of our lives, which largely come from terrestrial foods of animal origin. According to the FAO (2023), these foods provide 34% of good-quality protein and 17% of calories available for consumption, in addition to various minerals and vitamins, such as iron, zinc, selenium, vitamin B12, choline, and calcium, among others. Likewise, they also provide bioactive factors with functions in human health that are only found in this type of food, such as carnitine, creatine, taurine, hydroxyproline, and anserine. Also, the long-chain fatty acids and proportions of essential fatty acids found in these foods are important for cognitive function at all stages of people's lives.

Therefore, it is essential to develop new strategies based on scientific evidence that improve animal growth processes to supply enough meat for human consumption.

This Special Issue aims to inform the scientific community of recent research on the advances and innovations related to improving the efficiency of growth and nutrient utilization in animals, from the embryonic state to birth and finalization, with the aim of obtaining a greater quantity and quality of products of animal origin.

We invite you to send original manuscripts or reviews in fields related to the main topic of this Special Issue. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Animal nutrition.
• Growth physiology.
• Nutrition and embryonic development.
• Diets and ruminal microbiology.
• Diets and nutrient absorption.
• Growth stimulants.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Héctor O. Orozco-Gregorio
Dr. Patricia Roldán-Santiago
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• growth
• nutrition
• livestock
• pregnancy
• diet
• performance
• metabolism
• technology