[HTML][HTML] Nutritional factors affecting abdominal fat deposition in poultry: a review

AM Fouad, HK El-Senousey - Asian-Australasian journal of animal …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The major goals of the poultry industry are to increase the carcass yield and to reduce
carcass fatness, mainly the abdominal fat pad. The increase in poultry meat consumption …

Conjugated linoleic acid: A potent fatty acid linked to animal and human health

P Shokryazdan, MA Rajion, GY Meng… - Critical Reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a mixture of isomers of linoleic acid (C18: 2 n-6), which is
mostly found in the ruminant meat and dairy products. The CLA is known to have many …

Identification and characterization of genes that control fat deposition in chickens

H Claire D'Andre, W Paul, X Shen, X Jia… - Journal of animal …, 2013 - Springer
Background Fat deposits in chickens contribute significantly to meat quality attributes such
as juiciness, flavor, taste and other organoleptic properties. The quantity of fat deposited …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and characterization of genes that control fat deposition in chickens

HC D'Andre, W Paul, X Shen, X Jia… - Journal of animal …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Fat deposits in chickens contribute significantly to meat quality attributes such
as juiciness, flavor, taste and other organoleptic properties. The quantity of fat deposited …

RNA-seq analysis of abdominal fat reveals differences between modern commercial broiler chickens with high and low feed efficiencies

Z Zhuo, SJ Lamont, WR Lee, B Abasht - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
For economic and environmental reasons, chickens with superior feed efficiency (FE) are
preferred in the broiler chicken industry. High FE (HFE) chickens typically have reduced …

Identification of selection signatures involved in performance traits in a paternal broiler line

OAC Almeida, GCM Moreira, FM Rezende… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Natural and artificial selection leads to changes in certain regions of the
genome resulting in selection signatures that can reveal genes associated with the selected …

Increased adipose tissue aromatase activity improves insulin sensitivity and reduces adipose tissue inflammation in male mice

C Ohlsson, A Hammarstedt… - American Journal …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Females are, in general, more insulin sensitive than males. To investigate whether this is a
direct effect of sex-steroids (SS) in white adipose tissue (WAT), we developed a male mouse …

Should I lay or should I grow: photoperiodic versus metabolic cues in chickens

C Hanlon, R Ramachandran, MJ Zuidhof… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
While photoperiod has been generally accepted as the primary if not the exclusive cue to
stimulate reproduction in photoperiodic breeders such as the laying hen, current knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Linear and nonlinear models for assessing carcass composition using dual X-ray absorptiometry in egg-and meat-type chickens

TL Noetzold, JA Chew, DR Korver, GY Bédécarrats… - Poultry Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to develop appropriate correction equations for dual energy
X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) for total carcass composition of live meat-and egg-type …

The diverse roles of 17β-estradiol in non-gonadal tissues and its consequential impact on reproduction in laying and broiler breeder hens

C Hanlon, CJ Ziezold, GY Bédécarrats - Frontiers in physiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Estradiol-17β (E2) has long been studied as the primary estrogen involved in sexual
maturation of hens. Due to the oviparous nature of avian species, ovarian production of E2 …