Principles of Animal Nutrition

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Principles of Animal Nutrition

Principles Of Animal Nutrition

By Guoyao Wu

Principles of Animal Nutrition PDF. 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.

This book entitledย Principles of Animal Nutritionย 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. The text begins with an overview of the physiological and biochemical bases of animal nutrition, followed by a detailed description of chemical properties of carbohydrates, lipids, protein, and amino acids. It advances to the coverage of the digestion, absorption, transport, and metabolism of macronutrients, energy, vitamins, and minerals in animals. To integrate the basic knowledge of nutrition with practical animal feeding, the book continues with discussion on nutritional requirements of animals for maintenance and production, as well as the regulation of food intake by animals. Finally, the book closes with feed additives, including those used to enhance animal growth and survival, improve feed efficiency for protein production, and replace feed antibiotics.

While the classical and modern concepts of animal nutrition are emphasized throughout the book, every effort has been made to include the most recent progress in this ever-expanding field, so that readers in various biological disciplines can integrate biochemistry and physiology with nutrition, health, and disease in mammals, birds, and other animal species (e.g., fish and shrimp). All chapters clearly provide the essential literature related to the principles of animal nutrition, which should be useful for academic researchers, practitioners, beginners, and government policy makers. This book is an excellent reference for professionals and a comprehensive textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students in animal science, biochemistry, biomedicine, biology, food science, nutrition, veterinary medicine, and related fields.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Author

Chapter 1ย Physiological and Biochemical Bases of Animal Nutrition

Chapter 2ย Chemistry of Carbohydrates

Chapter 3ย Chemistry of Lipids

Chapter 4ย Chemistry of Protein and Amino Acids

Chapter 5ย Metabolism and Nutrition of Carbohydrates

Chapter 6ย Metabolism and Nutrition of Lipids

Chapter 7ย Metabolism and Nutrition of Protein and Amino Acids

Chapter 8ย Energy Metabolism

Chapter 9ย Nutrition and Metabolism of Vitamins

Chapter 10ย Nutrition and Metabolism of Minerals

Chapter 11ย Nutritional Requirements for Maintenance and Production

Chapter 12ย Regulation of Food Intake by Animals

Chapter 13ย Feed Additives

Index

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