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Skip to Search Results- 2Wishart, David (Biological Sciences)
- 1Ametaj, Burim (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Fitzsimmons, Carolyn (Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science)
- 1Harrison, D. Jed (Chemistry)
- 1Supervisor: Dr.David Wishart (Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science) cosupervisor:Dr. Burim Ametaj (Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
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Spring 2021
Approximately 70% of the cost of beef production is impacted by dietary intake. Maximizing production efficiency of beef cattle requires not only genetic selection to maximize feed efficiency (i.e. residual feed intake - RFI), but also adequate nutrition throughout all stages of growth and...
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Blood and Urinary Metabotyping Reveals Potential Predictive Biomarkers for Identifying Dairy Cows at Risk of Subclinical Mastitis During the Dry-Off Period
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Subclinical mastitis (SCM) remains one of the most important infectious diseases of dairy cows as it is associated with considerable losses in milk production and financial revenue. Currently, most SCM research and practices focus on diagnosing this intramammary infection (IMI) by counting...
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Fall 2017
The last decades witnessed the rapid growth and advancement of research on microfluidic systems for chemical and biological analysis. There remain many important biochemical challenges that need to be solved with novel technologies. This thesis looks at how to apply several microfluidic...
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The use of modern metabolomics and proteomics to address the health challenges facing the Canadian cattle industry
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Naturally cattle only consumed grass, hay and other forage crops but modern cattle industry has started shifting them from a natural grazing diet to a more balanced grain-rich diet. However, feeding dairy cows grain rich diet is associated with a rapid release of large amounts of SCFA that have...