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Recent developments in lipid metabolism in ruminants – the role of fat in maintaining animal health and performance

Beate Hiller
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Research Group ‘Cellular Lipid Metabolism’, Institute of Muscle Biology and Growth, Leibniz-Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany. Email: hiller@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Animal Production Science 54(10) 1549-1560 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN14555
Submitted: 7 May 2014  Accepted: 19 June 2014   Published: 19 August 2014

Abstract

Optimising farm animal performance has long been the key focus of worldwide livestock production research. Advances in the understanding of metabolism/phenotype associations have outlined the central role of the lipid metabolism of farm animals for economically relevant phenotypic traits, such as animal health (immune status, fertility/reproductive capacity, adaptability/metabolic flexibility, robustness, well being) and performance aspects (meat/milk quality and quantity) and have led to an extensive exploitation of lipid metabolism manipulation strategies (e.g. tailored nutritional regimes, alimentary/intravenous fat supplementation, rumen-protected fat feeding, hormone application). This contribution gives an overview of established concepts to tailor animals’ lipid metabolism and highlights novel strategies to expand these application-oriented approaches via improved analysis tools, omics-approaches, cell model systems and systems biology methods.

Additional keywords: milk, meat.


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