Important Dates
Submission open: 29th February, 2024
Submission close: 30th June, 2024
Expected time to first decision: 7 working days before peer review
Anticipated publication date: September 2024
Scope of This Special Issue
Milk and dairy products are important sources of nutrients such as fatty acids, proteins and minerals in the modern human diet. However, the dairy industry worldwide is facing increasing challenges of raising production costs and declining milk prices. The sustainability of dairy production relies on further improvements of production efficiency and reductions of costs from animal diseases, which are largely dependent on our growing knowledge in lactation biology and pathology in dairy animals. As an effort to improve our knowledge in these areas, Animal Nutriomics is inviting critical reviews, original research, and methodology manuscript submissions for this special issue.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the followings:
- Mammary growth, development, and metabolism
- Endocrine and nutritional regulation of milk synthesis
- Animal health related to milk production
- Interaction among genetics, nutrition, and health in dairy animals
- Application of high-throughput technologies such as metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics to study lactation biology and dairy animal health
Keywords:
Lactation, mammary gland biology, animal health, dairy production, milk synthesis, mammary development, dairy nutrition
Manuscript submission information:
Instructions for Authors can be found at preparing-your-materials.
All manuscripts should be submitted before 30th June 2024 via the submission system. Please select 'Lactation Biology and Dairy Animal Health' from the special issue dropdown in the submission site to ensure your paper is assigned correctly.
Guest Editors:
Feng-Qi Zhao
PhD and Professor
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, US
Email: fzhao@uvm.edu
Area(s) of Expertise: Glucose transport, Lactation physiology, molecular endocrinology and metabolism
Juan J. Loor
PhD and Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, US
Email: jloor@illinois.edu
Area(s) of Expertise: Growth, Lactation physiology, Nutrition, Nutrigenomics, Microbiota, One-carbon Metabolism