Resilience of small ruminants to climate change and increased environmental temperature: A review

A Joy, FR Dunshea, BJ Leury, IJ Clarke, K DiGiacomo… - Animals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Small ruminants are critical for food security and livelihood, especially
under extreme stressful and diverse climatic environments. Generally, sheep and goats are …

Biology of heat stress; the nexus between intestinal hyperpermeability and swine reproduction

EJ Mayorga, JW Ross, AF Keating, RP Rhoads… - Theriogenology, 2020 - Elsevier
Unfavorable weather conditions are one of the largest constraints to maximizing farm animal
productivity. Heat stress (HS), in particular, compromises almost every metric of profitability …

[图书][B] Introduction to concepts of climate change impact on livestock and its adaptation and mitigation

V Sejian, R Bhatta, NM Soren, PK Malik, JP Ravindra… - 2015 - Springer
This chapter provides an overview of the impact of climate change on livestock production
and its adaptation and mitigation. Animal agriculture is the major contributor to increasing …

Dietary antioxidants at supranutritional doses improve oxidative status and reduce the negative effects of heat stress in sheep,

SS Chauhan, P Celi, BJ Leury, IJ Clarke… - Journal of Animal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The present study was undertaken to investigate the impact of heat (thermal) stress and
dietary antioxidant supplementation on the oxidative and physiological status of sheep …

Mitigation of the heat stress impact in livestock reproduction

G Krishnan, M Bagath, P Pragna, MK Vidya… - …, 2017 - books.google.com
Heat stress affects the fertility and reproductive livestock performance by compromising the
physiology reproductive tract, through hormonal imbalance, decreased oocyte quality and …

Genes for resilience to heat stress in small ruminants: A review

V Sejian, M Bagath, G Krishnan, VP Rashamol… - Small Ruminant …, 2019 - Elsevier
Small ruminants have several advantages for being an integral part of the pastoral
production system because of their short gestation period, high prolificacy, rapid growth rate …

Impact of heat stress on the reproductive performance and physiology of ewes: a systematic review and meta-analyses

CB Romo-Barron, D Diaz, JJ Portillo-Loera… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
High values of ambient temperature and relative humidity negatively affect livestock
because they induce heat stress. In heat-stressed ewes, the reproduction is affected …

Applications for non-invasive thyroid hormone measurements in mammalian ecology, growth, and maintenance

V Behringer, C Deimel, G Hohmann, J Negrey… - Hormones and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Thyroid hormones (THs) play a pivotal role in the regulation of metabolic activity throughout
all life stages. Cross-talk with other hormone systems permits THs to coordinate metabolic …

Antioxidant supplementation mitigates DNA damage in boar (Sus scrofa domesticus) spermatozoa induced by tropical summer

ST Peña Jr, B Gummow, AJ Parker, DBBP Paris - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Heat stress-induced sperm DNA damage has recently been demonstrated in boars during
tropical summer; which could negatively impact early embryo survival and litter size in sows …

High dietary vitamin E and selenium improves feed intake and weight gain of finisher lambs and maintains redox homeostasis under hot conditions

SS Chauhan, EN Ponnampalam, P Celi… - Small Ruminant …, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study was conducted to elucidate the role of dietary vitamin E (Vit E) and
selenium (Se) on the oxidative status of lambs exposed to short term hot conditions during …