To study the effect of different stocking densities on the growth of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) cultured in containers in a land-based recirculating aquaculture system (C-RAS), 13,500 fish with initial average body mass of 137.3 ± 5.46 g were selected and stocked at 1000 fish/container ...

Curtain-sided barns with circulation fans above stall are commonly used to house dairy cows in China. Many farms equipped with circulation fans are unable to provide appropriate cooling, especially for the naturally ventilated shed, which can result in decreasing feed intake and milk production....

Paired box (Pax) proteins 3 and 7 are associated with activation of muscle satellite cells and play a major role in hyperplastic and hypertrophic growth in postnatal skeletal muscle fibers. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of housing system on abundance of Pax3 and Pax7 in...

Pupillary reflex has been used as a method to examine psychological problems in human clinics and mental disease research. Intensive animal farming has been shown to lead to chronic stress resulting in depression; however, comparing with humans we lack an effective clinical method to clinically...

Artificial selection in closed populations can fix or differentiate alternative alleles of loci associated with selected traits. Two closed chicken populations, A and B, originating from Jiuwu, a Chinese native breed, were bred for more than 10 generations. We compared progeny from reciprocal...

Pond aquaculture has become the most important and broadest breeding model in China, and an extremely important source of aquatic products, but the potential hazard factors of potential pathogenic bacteria (PPB), antibiotic resistance bacteria (ARB), and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in...

Objectives: Feeding height is crucial for the expression of natural behavior and animal welfare of captive birds. However, literatures about this issue are unavailable so far. This study is to explore the optimal feeding height of caged Blue-eared Pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum), which is a class...

Heat stress is a great concern in the layer industry because it decreases egg production and egg quality. Orthosiphon stamineus extract (OE) has the potential to relieve heat stress, and rosmarinic acid (RA) is the main effective constituent of OE. However, the effects and mechanisms of OE and RA...

Bioaerosols from swine confinement buildings (SCBs) pose a challenge to public health, and microorganisms within the SCBs bioaerosols originate from swine feces, of which the microbial composition is associated with the production phase. The present study adopted the whole metagenome shotgun...

In order to study the expression of miR-1 and miR-206 in the muscle tissue of AA broilers under different feeding methods, this study used bioinformatics methods to compare the homology of miR-1 and miR-206 in different species. The stem-loop real-time quantitative RT-PCR method was used to analyze ...