Scope of This Special Issue

Research on sustainable swine production spans a wide range of disciplines, from molecular biology to physiology to gut health and translational research to swine nutrition. This special issue attempts to include comprehensively, for practicing nutritionist and scientists alike, our current understanding of how nutrition interacts with intestinal microbiota as well as environment-exogenous factors in swine, including physical activity or the lack thereof, to result in gut health and sustainable production. We certainly hope that the efforts to improve our knowledge in these areas. Animal Nutriomics is inviting critical reviews, original research, and methodology manuscript submissions for this special issue.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Microbial ecology in growing-finishing swine
- Amino acids, proteins, and gut health in swine
- Nitrogen utilization and gut health in swine
- Interaction of carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals or feed additives and gut health in swine production
- Improving the efficiency of nutrient use on sustainable swine production
- Application of high-throughput technologies such as metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics to elucidate the mechanism of sustainable swine production.

Keywords:

Swine nutrition, amino acids, protein, nitrogen, carbohydrate, lipid, vitamin, mineral, feed additive, microbial ecology, gut health, multi-omics analysis

 

Manuscript submission information:

Instructions for Authors can be found at preparing-your-materials.

Important Dates

Submission open: 20th January, 2025

Submission close: 31st December, 2025

Expected time to first decision: 7 working days before peer review

Anticipated publication date: April 2026

All manuscripts should be submitted before 31st December 2025 via the submission system. Please select "Nutriomics, Gut Health and Sustainable Swine Production" from the special issue dropdown in the submission site to ensure your paper is assigned correctly.

Guest Editors:

Xiang-Hua Yan

PhD and Professor

College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Email: xhyan2024@zju.edu.cn

Area(s) of Expertise: Swine precision feeding, Animal molecular nutrition, Feed science, Gut health and nutritional metabolism

 

Yi-Zhen Wang

PhD and Professor

College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Email: yzwang@zju.edu.cn

Area(s) of Expertise: Swine precision feeding, Animal molecular nutrition, Biological fermentable feed, Gut microbiota and sustainable swine production