Browsing by Author "Athrey, Giridhar"
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Shivanagoudra, Siddanagouda (2019-04-17)Several plants have been used extensively for the treatment of diabetes and its related conditions throughout the world. Most plants contain a diverse range of phytochemicals and can often have anti-diabetic effects. Among ...
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Athrey, Giridhar; Hodges, Theresa K.; Reddy, Michael R.; Overgaard, Hans J.; Matias, Abrahan; Ridl, Frances C.; Kleinschmidt, Immo; Caccone, Adalgisa; Slotman, Michel A.; Petrov, Dmitri A. (PLoS Genetics, 2012)
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Hubert, Shawna Marie (2019-07-08)Commercial meat-chickens (broilers) have been heavily selected for performance traits including high body weights, large breast muscle size, and improved feed efficiency. The wooden breast condition (WB) is a consequence ...
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Ibrahim, Mohamed M.A. (2021-04-09)Poultry production remains susceptible to significant infectious disease threats such as Avian Flu, and Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV), which threaten the supply of poultry production. My dissertation research addresses ...
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Genetic, Environmental and Management Influences on Selected Gut Bacterial Populations in Chickens Nolasco Isaula, Liliana Yadira (2019-11-12)The indigenous gut bacteria of chicken influences both the health and disease. Many factors affect the gut microbiome of commercial chickens. Host-biology and the environment are two key factors recognized as important ...
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Cilkiz, Kubra (2018-08-06)Increasing demand for poultry meat has encouraged production of the maximum possible yield from chicken, which resulted in broiler chickens being subjected to intense selection for increased Pectoralis major (P. major) ...
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Insects as Vectors of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovars on Poultry Production Farms Zwally, Kirsten (2023-08-11)As demand for chicken products increases, more public health concern is placed on antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella entering the food supply, whose transmission may be impacted by the presence and movement of differing ...
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Florkowski, Melanie (2023-04-21)Animals are in constant interaction with single-celled organisms. These microbes inhabit an animal’s environment as well as most surfaces of the body, including the skin and gut. The intimate relationship animals have with ...
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King, Joan Theresa (2022-12-07)The red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, is a globally invasive pest. Fire ant decapitating Pseudacteon flies (Diptera: Phoridae) are natural enemies of Solenopsis fire ants. They are parasitoids from the same native ...
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Biradar, Kishan (2022-04-15)Fruits and vegetables represent an essential source of phytonutrients, including antioxidants and other health-promoting compounds. Peppers (Capsicum spp.) are rich sources of many phytonutrients and accurate, rapid ...
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Askelson, Tyler Edward (2017-12-05)Probiotics and prebiotics are used widely because of their benefits to digestive and immune health. While there is significant evidence to support their effectiveness in humans and livestock animals, interpretation of the ...
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Alhaj Ali, Nasser (2021-04-12)Newcastle disease (ND) is a viral disease causing severe economic losses. The extensive use of currently available ND vaccines and biosecurity appears to keep NDV under control in developed countries. However, current ...
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Yang, Fengchun (2020-04-28)In recent years, the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens, (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) has been ranked high in sustainable agriculture due to its ability to transform organic waste into insect protein and compost. Numerous ...
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Popkin-Hall, Zachary Ray (2020-07-14)In this dissertation, I explore three major areas of inquiry underlying vertebrate host choice in the Anopheles (An.) gambiae complex. An. coluzzii is a major vector due to its high anthropophily. Therefore, studying the ...
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Alfieri, James Michael (2023-07-31)Gene flow and selection are two of the major evolutionary forces that generate life’s diversity. Interspecies hybridization and selective breeding represent extreme cases of these two major evolutionary forces. Utilizing ...
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Landa, Shelby (2021-12-10)The increasing availability of genomic data necessitates improved methods for whole-genome comparison. The study of complex phenotypes, especially, will benefit from comparative methods that are comprehensive across whole ...
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Athrey, Giridhar; Lance, Richard F.; Leberg, Paul L.; Mettke-Hofmann, Claudia (PloS One, 2015)
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Siciliano Martina, Leila Marie (2020-07-21)Morphological changes in the crania of captive mammals compared to their wild counterparts have been documented for over a century. Although these morphological differences are potentially deleterious, their exact trends, ...
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Casco Montenegro, Gerardo Antonio (2019-10-18)Woody Breast condition (WB) is detrimental for water holding capacity of the meat (WHC). Two dietary experiments were conducted by varying the ingredients used to formulate traditional corn-soybean meal diets (SBM) in the ...