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Extensive Sheep and Goat Production: The Role of Novel Technologies towards Sus...
Silva, S.R.; Sacarrão-Birrento, L.; Almeida, M.; Ribeiro, D.M.; Guedes, C.; Montaña, J.R.G.; Pereira, A.F.; Zaralis, K.; Geraldo, A.; Tzamaloukas, O.Sheep and goat extensive production systems are very important in the context of global food security and the use of rangelands that have no alternative agricultural use. In such systems, there are enormous challenges to address. These include, for instance, classical production issues, such as nutrition or reproduction, as well as carbon-efficient systems within the climate-change context. An adequate response...
Patterned separator membranes with pillar surface microstructures for improved ...
Gonçalves, Renato Ferreira; Miranda, D.; Marques-Almeida, T.; Silva, M.M.; Cardoso, Vanessa Fernandes; Almeida, A.M.; Costa, C.M.; Lanceros-Méndez, S.In order to improve battery performance by tuning battery separator membranes, this work reports on porous poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) - P(VDF-TrFE)- membranes with surface pillar microstructures. Separators with tailored pillar diameter, height and bulk thickness were fabricated by template patterning and computer simulations, allowing to evaluate the effect of the pillar microstructure char...
Stress response of lettuce (Lactuca sativa) to environmental contamination with...
Leitão, I.; Leclerq, C.C.; Ribeiro, D.M.; Renaut, J.; Almeida, A.M.; Martins, L.L.; Mourato, M.P.Pharmaceutical compounds have been found in rivers and treated wastewaters. They often contaminate irrigation waters and consequently accumulate in edible vegetables, causing changes in plants metabolism The main objective of this work is to understand how lettuce plants cope with the contamination from three selected pharmaceuticals using a label free proteomic analysis. A lettuce hydroponic culture, grown for...
Across the great divide: Proteomics becoming an essential tool for animal and v...
Miller, I.; Almeida, A.M.; Eckersall, P.D.
Water buffalo production in the Brazilian Amazon Basin: a review
Silva, J.A.R.; Garcia, A.R.; Almeida, A.M.; Bezerra, A.S.; Brito, L.J.The Brazilian Amazon has witnessed, in the last decades, an increase in the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) inventory, with interesting productivity results. As the Brazilian Amazon contains the main water buffalo population in the Americas, the aim of this work is to review its most relevant production systems and some peculiarities about meat and milk production in this territory. The opening section describe...
Agroecological practices to support tropical livestock farming systems: a Carib...
Alexandre, G.; Rodriguez, L.; Arece, J.; Delgadillo, J.; Garcia, G.W.; Habermeir, K.; Almeida, A.M.With global climate changes currently occurring, and particularly given the severe energy and food shortages occurring throughout tropical regions, agroecological (AE) systems are drawing renewed attention as an efficient alternative to intensive models of production, particularly unsuitable in regions of the world such as the Caribbean or Latin America. There is a pressing need to focus on livestock farming sy...
Biomarkers of fitness and welfare in dairy cattle: healthy productivity
Zachut, M.; Speranda, M.; Almeida, A.M.; Gabai, G.; Mobasheri, A.; Hernandez-Castellano, L.Milk production intensification has led to several unwanted aspects, such as sustainability issues and environmental pollution. Among these, increased milk outputs that have been achieved over the last 70 years have led to several health and pathophysiological conditions in high yielding dairy animals, including metabolic diseases that were uncommon in the past. Increased occurrence of diverse metabolic disease...
The effects of improving low dietary protein utilization on the proteome of lam...
Ribeiro, D.M.; Planchon, S.; Leclercq, C.C.; Dentinho, M.T.P.; Bessa, R.J.B.; Santos-Silva, J.; Paulos, K.; Jerónimo, E.; Renault, J.; Almeida, A.M.Cistus ladanifer L. is a common shrub endemic to the Mediterranean region with high levels of condensed tannins (CT). CT form complexes with dietary protein resisting microbial degradation in the rumen, which enhances dietary protein utilization in ruminant diets. The objective of this study was to evaluate the utilization of CT in the diet of lambs on the proteomes of muscle, hepatic and adipose tissues. Twent...
Camelids: new players in the international animal production context
Zarrin, M.; Riveros, J.L.; Ahmadpour, A.; Almeida, A.M.; Konuspayeva, G.; Vargas-Bello-Pérez, E.; Faye, B.; Hernández-Castellano, L.E.The Camelidae family comprises the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus), the dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius), and four species of South American camelids: llama (Lama glama), alpaca (Lama pacos) guanaco (Lama guanicoe), and vicuña (Vicugna vicugna). The main characteristic of these species is their ability to cope with either hard climatic conditions like those found in arid regions (Bactrian and dromedary...
Mineral profiling of muscle and hepatic tissues of Australian Merino, Damara an...
Ribeiro, D.M.; Scanlon, T.; Kilminster, T.; Martins, C.F.; Greet, J.; Milton, J.; Holdham, C.; Freire, João; Mourato, Miguel; Almeida, A.M.Seasonal weight loss (SWL) is a major constraint to extensive animal production systems. The Australian sheep production is based on merino sheep, a European breed not tolerant to SWL. Tolerant alternative breeds such as the fat-tailed Damara and the Dorper have been increasingly used in Australia and elsewhere, due to their robustness. The aim of this study was to understand the mineral profile of muscle and l...