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- 2Genomic selection
- 1Anaerobic Microbiology
- 1Canola co-products
- 1Chickens
- 1Complete blood count
- 1Beltranena, Eduardo (Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science)
- 1Dr. G. Douglas Inglis (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
- 1Dr. Richard R. E. Uwiera (AFNS)
- 1Dr. Trina C. Uwiera (Surgery)
- 1Plastow, Graham (Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Plastow, Graham (Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
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Fall 2017
The emergence of high-throughput genomic data provides new opportunities for genetic analysis. Especially, in terms of genetic improvement of animals, genomic tools provide new tools for animal selection, while still suffering from some statistical issues due to the high-dimension of the genomic...
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Comparative isolation of bacteria from inflamed sites to identify inflammation-tailored bacteria
DownloadSpring 2021
Microbial culture collections are fundamental to microbiology research. However, with the advent of next generation sequencing research, the generation and maintenance of comprehensive culture collections has become deprioritized. As such a need exists for the improved isolation of diverse...
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Fall 2021
Disease resilience is defined as an animal’s ability to maintain a high level of performance in the face of disease challenges caused by multiple pathogens, as is often the case in commercial pig farms. Therefore, disease resilience is anticipated to be critical to the profitability of the pig...
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Spring 2016
Solvent-extracted canola meal (CM) is fed to pigs as alternative to soybean meal (SBM). The relatively high dietary fibre content in CM limit its nutritional value for swine. Canola processing could produce canola co-products with less fibre and greater fat thus increasing its nutritional value....
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Fall 2020
Meat and carcass quality traits are of increasing interest to the swine industry due to their influence on customer purchasing and repurchasing decisions. However, meat quality traits must be measured post-mortem, meaning that these traits cannot be measured on the potential breeding candidates...
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The role of functional properties of dietary fiber in the control of nutrient flow and intestinal health in pigs
DownloadFall 2010
Viscosity and fermentability are considered important properties of dietary fiber. Viscosity increases digesta viscosity and reduces digesta passage rate, nutrient digestion and absorption whereas fermentability increases fermentation into short chain fatty acids (SCFA). The objectives were to...