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The Role of Biotechnology in Improvement of Livestock

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To fulfill increased world food demand and to overcome the consequences related to natural and industrial changes, scientists have been trying to select and improve both feedstuff and livestock, genetically. Biotechnology, also involving chemical and physical techniques, is applied to nutrition to increase the abundance (availability) of feed and to improve the digestibility of nutrients in those feeds. Additionally, animal nutrition studies are conducted to determine the safety of human food and modeling of some human diseases. Manipulating animal ability to absorb and utilize more nutrients starts from the plant breeders and continues until where those nutrients are utilized in the body. Microorganisms that have symbiotic life with livestock organism are transgenically manipulated to improve nutrition. Adding new genes to feedstuff gives nutritionists more applicational tools for improving nutrition and animal health through feeds. In contrast, application of recombinant DNA technology to farm animals needs more effort and may result in uncontrollable consequences.

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  1. Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey

    Mehmet Basalan

  2. National Veterinary Laboratory, Park Road, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Abubakar

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  1. National Veterinary Laboratory, Islamabad, Pakistan

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  2. Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

    Ali Saeed

  3. Veterinary Faculty, Kirikkale University, Yahsihan, Turkey

    Oguz Kul

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Basalan, M., Abubakar, M. (2015). Biotechnology and Animal Nutrition. In: Abubakar, M., Saeed, A., Kul, O. (eds) The Role of Biotechnology in Improvement of Livestock. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46789-3_2

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