Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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1. Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 1, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
2. Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, Kent St., Bentley 6102, Australia
Interests: animal welfare; animal ethics; captive animal management; heavy metals in animals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Sezione di Zoologia, I-10123 Torino, Italy
Interests: amphibians; reptiles; taxonomy; ecology; tropical biodiversity; longevity; conservation; Madagascar
* Section: "Herpetology"
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Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Department of Rangelands, Wildife and Fisheries Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Interests: wildlife; nutrition; physiology; conservation policy
* Section: "Wildlife"
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Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Tolara di Sopra 50, Ozzano dell’Emilia, 40064 Bologna, Italy
Interests: canine and feline tumours
* Section: "Veterinary Clinical Studies"
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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
Interests: rabbit; housing systems; behavior; meat quality; lipid metabolism; oxidative stress; health
* Section: "Animal System and Management"
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Institute of Animal Nutrition, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Bundesallee 37, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Interests: dairy cow nutrition and metabolism; mycotoxins
* Section: "Animal Nutrition"
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Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: beef; dairy; genetics; genetic engineering; animal breeding; biostatistics; animal genetics
* Section: "Animal Genetics and Genomics"
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Department for Small Animals, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Interests: herd health; clinical epidemiology; neonatal immunity in newborn bovines; etiology; (NIR) non-ionidasing radiation
* Section: "Animal Physiology"
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Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
Interests: urban birds; migratory birds; ecology of birds; urban biodiversity; arctic biodiversity; boreal biodiversity; forest birds; mire birds; water birds; bird monitoring; conservation biology
* Section: "Birds"
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College of Agriculture, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Interests: animal welfare; meat quality and safety; small ruminants
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Swine Production Medicine, School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy Campus, Roseworthy, SA 5371, Australia
Interests: swine herd management; sow reproductive management; pig health management; microbiome and pig performance
* Section: "Animal Reproduction"
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Department of Animal and Food Science, School of Veterinary Science, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: animal welfare; welfare assessment; animal behaviour; stress physiology; companion animals, wild animals
* Section: "Zoo Animals"
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Department of Politics and Society, University of Winchester, Winchester SO22 4NR, UK
Interests: animal welfare science; animal ethics; animal law and policy
* Section "Public Policy, Politics and Law"
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School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Interests: ecology; wildlife conservation; spatial information; remote sensing; interdisciplinary research; natural resources management; decision support
* Section "Ecology and Conservation"
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Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4076, Australia
Interests: animal physiology; animal welfare; behavioral physiology; animal ethics
* Section "Companion Animals"
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Animal Health and Welfare Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
Interests: animal health; animal welfare; animal behaviour; veterinary science; farm animals; aquatic animals; animal paleopathology; zooarchaeology
* Section "Pigs"
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Department of Anatomy, Animal Production and Clinical Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Santiago de Compostela, Av. Carballo Calero s/n, 27002 Lugo, Spain
Interests: animal anatomy; neuroscience; histology; immunohistochemistry; olfactory system
* Section "Mammals"
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Animal and Biomedical Sciences, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
Interests: poultry nutrition; feed evaluation; amino acid metabolism; minerals; nutrition of young broilers; lipid utilisation; particle size; feed processing technology
* Section "Poultry"
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Animal Science Department, Center for Research and Food Technology of Aragon (CITA), Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: animal science; animal production; meat quality; meat products; acceptability of meat and meat products; the shelf-life of meat and meat products; ruminant production systems; ultrasound; immunocastration; animal science; cattle; consumers; near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); carcass quality
* Section "Animal Products"
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School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North 4470, New Zealand
Interests: equine biomechanics; equine exercise physiology; equine industry epidemiology; equestrian sport
* Section "Equids"
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Aquatic Life Conservation Society, GA, Kanazawa 12-27, Kamiyazawa, Rifu 981-0121, Miyagi, Japan
Interests: fisheries; aquaculture; ichthyology; vertebrate biology; genetic analysis of biodiversity; molecular genetics and genomics; molecular phylogeny; cytogenetics; mitochondrial genomics; aquatic ecology; freshwater environment restoration
* Section "Aquatic Animals"
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Animal Physiology and Behavior Unit, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70121 Bari, Italy
Interests: animal physiology; behavioral neuroscience; brain lateralization; emotion; animal communication; human–animal relationship
* Section: Human-Animal Interactions, Animal Behaviour and Emotion
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Section Associate Editor
Department of Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources, and Engineering (DAFNE), University of Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122 Foggia, Italy
Interests: ruminant welfare; veterinary immunology; heat stress; feeding strategies; milk production
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Advisory Board Member
Animal Welfare Science and Bioethics Centre, School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
Interests: fetal and neonatal physiology; stress physiology; pain assessment and management; livestock slaughter; conceptual frameworks in animal welfare science

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Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Interests: cancer biology; digital pathology; calcium sensing receptor; drug discovery; emerging technologies

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Department of Animal and Human Physiology, School of Biology, University of Athens, University Campus, 157 84 Athens, Greece
Interests: signal transduction pathways; protein kinases; heart; cardiac myocytes; oxidative stress; apoptosis; autophagy; stress sensors
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Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, CA, USA
Interests: evolution; systematics; conservation; tropical; fishes

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Department of Nature Conservation, Institute for Wildlife Management and Nature, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 7400 Kaposvar, Hungary
Interests: plant -herbivore interactions; feeding traditions in the rabbit; animal husbandry; behavioral ecology; conservation biology; wildlife conservation

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Departament of Animal Science, University of Lleida, Av. Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Interests: feeding strategies; animal product quality; environmental impact mitigation
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