Alanine-specific appetite in slow growing chickens is associated with impaired glucose transport and TCA cycle

• Published in: BMC genomics Vol. 23; no. 1; p. 393
• Main Authors: Niknafs, Shahram, Fortes, Marina R S, Cho, Sungbo, Black, John L, Roura, Eugeni
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 23.05.2022; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Access control; Accretion; Agricultural research; Alanine; Amino acids; Animal feeding behavior; Appetite; Asparagine; Aspartic acid; Biological transport; Birds; Catabolism; Chicken; Chickens; Dehydrogenases; Depletion; Deposition; Diet; Feed intake; Feeds; Food and nutrition; Gene expression; Genomic analysis; Genomics; Glucose; Glucose metabolism; Glucose transport; Growth; Growth rate; Intermediates; Kinases; Krebs cycle; Laboratory animals; Lysine; Metabolism; Methionine; Physiological aspects; Poultry; Preferences; Proteins; Proteomics; Pyruvate; Pyruvic acid; Sensors; Threonine; Transcriptomics; Tricarboxylic acid cycle; Australia; Pyruvate; Alanine; Chicken; Glucose; Growth; Feed intake

The rate of protein accretion and growth affect amino acid requirements in young animals. Differences in amino acid metabolism contribute to individual variations in growth rate. This study aimed at determining how amino acid needs may change with growth rates in broiler chickens. Experiment 1 consi...