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Animals are biological transformers of dietary matter and energy to produce high-quality foods and wools for human consumption and use. Mammals, birds, fish, and shrimp require nutrients to survive, grow, develop, and reproduce. As an interesting, dynamic, and challenging discipline in biological sciences, animal nutrition spans an immense range from chemistry, biochemistry, anatomy and physiology to reproduction, immunology, pathology, and cell biology. Thus, nutrition is a foundational subject in livestock, poultry and fish production, as well as the rearing and health of companion animals. Principles of Animal Nutrition consists of 13 chapters. Recent advances in biochemistry, physiology and anatomy provide the foundation to understand how nutrients are utilized by ruminants and non-ruminants. To integrate the basic knowledge of nutrition with practical animal feeding, the ebook discusses on nutritional requirements of animals for maintenance and production, as well as the regulation of food intake by animals. The ebook closes with feed additives, including those used to enhance animal growth and survival, improve feed efficiency for protein production, and replace feed antibiotics. 800 p.
- Dr. Guoyao Wu. BS in Animal Science, MPS in Animal Nutrition, MSc and PhD in Animal Biochemistry, University Distinguished Professor, University Faculty Fellow, AgriLife Research Fellow. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (USA).
- Publication date (digital version): 2017-11 – CRC Press (imprint of Taylor & Francis Group); Copyright © 2018 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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