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    • The effect of feeder system and diet on welfare, performance and meat quality, of growing-finishing Iberian × Duroc pigs under high environmental temperatures 

      Oliveira, Angela C.F.; González, Joel; Asmar, Salma E.; Batllori, Norbert P.; Vera, Itzel Y.; Valencia, Uriel R.; Lizardo, Rosil; Borges, Tâmara D.; Esteve-Garcia, Enric; Panella-Riera, Nuria; Costa, Leandro B.; Dalmau, Antoni (Livestock Science, 2020-02-12) Benestar Animal; Nutrició Animal; Qualitat i Tecnologia Alimentària
      The present study investigated the replacement of 5% of starch (ST) by 5% of sunflower oil (SO), with or without feed restriction, in the diet of growing-finishing Iberian × Duroc pigs exposed to heat ...

    • Risk of survival, establishment and spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) in the EU 

      EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW); More, Simon; Miranda, Miguel Ángel; Bicout, Dominique; Bøtner, Anette; Butterworth, Andrew; Calistri, Paolo; Depner, Klaus; Edwards, Sandra; Garin-Bastuji, Bruno; Good, Margaret; Michel, Virginie; Raj, Mohan; Nielsen, Søren Saxmose; Sihvonen, Liisa; Spoolder, Hans; Stegeman, Jan Arend; Thulke, Hans-Hermann; Velarde, Antonio; Willeberg, Preben; Winckler, Christoph; Baláz, Vojtech; Martel, An; Murray, Kris; Fabris, Chiara; Munoz-Gajardo, Irene; Gogin, Andrey; Verdonck, Frank; Gortázar Schmidt, Christian (EFSA Journal, 2018-04-30) Benestar Animal
      Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) is an emerging fungal pathogen of salamanders. Despite limited surveillance, Bsal was detected in kept salamanders populations in Belgium, Germany, Spain, the ...

    • Stunning methods and slaughter of rabbits for human consumption 

      EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW); Saxmose Nielsen, Søren; Alvarez, Julio; Bicout, Dominique Joseph; Calistri, Paolo; Depner, Klaus; Drewe, Julian Ashley; Garin-Bastuji, Bruno; Gonzales Rojas, Jose Luis; Gortázar Schmidt, Christian; Michel, Virginie; Miranda Chueca, Miguel Ángel; Roberts, Helen Clare; Sihvonen, Liisa Helena; Stahl, Karl; Velarde Calvo, Antonio; Viltrop, Arvo; Winckler, Christoph; Candiani, Denise; Fabris, Chiara; Mosbach-Schulz, Olaf; Van der Stede, Yves; Spoolder, Hans (EFSA Journal, 2020-01-09) Benestar Animal
      This opinion on the killing of rabbits for human consumption (‘slaughtering’) responds to two mandates: one from the European Parliament (EP) and the other from the European Commission. The opinion ...

    • Scientific opinion concerning the killing of rabbits for purposes other than slaughter 

      EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW); Saxmose Nielsen, Søren; Alvarez, Julio; Bicout, Dominique Joseph; Calistri, Paolo; Depner, Klaus; Drewe, Julian Ashley; Garin-Bastuji, Bruno; Gonzales Rojas, Jose Luis; Gortázar Schmidt, Christian; Michel, Virginie; Miranda Chueca, Miguel Ángel; Roberts, Helen Clare; Sihvonen, Liisa Helena; Stahl, Karl; Velarde Calvo, Antonio; Viltrop, Arvo; Winckler, Christoph; Candiani, Denise; Fabris, Chiara; Mosbach-Schulz, Olaf; Van der Stede, Yves; Spoolder, Hans (EFSA Journal, 2020-01-10) Benestar Animal
      Rabbits of different ages may have to be killed on-farm for purposes other than slaughter (where slaughter is defined as killing for human consumption) either individually or on a large scale (e.g. ...

    • Growth of juvenile Pinna nobilis in captivity conditions: Dietary and pathological constraints 

      Prado, Patricia; Cabanes, Pep; Catanese, Gaetano; Carella, Francesca; Carrasco, Noelia; Grau, Amalia; Hernandis, Sebastián; García-March, Jose Rafael; Tena, José; Caiola, Nuno; Andree, Karl B. (Aquaculture, 2020-02-25) Aigües Marines i Continentals; Aqüicultura
      The fan mussel, Pinna nobilis, is an endemic Mediterranean species, whose populations have been seriously affected by infectious diseases. The effect of diet composition on growth and survival rates, ...

    • Differential distribution of the wlaN and cgtB genes, Associated with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, in Campylobacter jejuni isolates from humans, broiler chickens, and wild birds 

      Guirado, Pedro; Paytubi, Sonia; Miró, Elisenda; Iglesias-Torrens, Yaidelis; Navarro, Ferran; Cerdà-Cuéllar, Marta; Attolini, Camille Stephan-Otto; Balsalobre, Carlos; Madrid, Cristina (Microorganisms, 2020-02-26) Sanitat Animal
      Campylobacter jejuni causes campylobacteriosis, a bacterial gastroenteritis with high incidence worldwide. Moreover, C. jejuni infection can trigger the polyneuropathic disorder denominated Guillain-Barré ...

    • Mycoplasma conjunctivae in insect vectors and anatomic locations related to transmission and persistence 

      Aguilar, Xavier Fernández; Lopez-Olvera, Jorge Ramon; Ribas, Maria Puig; Begovoeva, Mattia; Velarde, Roser; Cardells, Jesus; Cabezón, Oscar (Veterinary Microbiology, 2018-11-12) Sanitat Animal
      Mycoplasma conjunctivae is an obligate microparasite that causes Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) in Caprinae species. IKC is a long-recognised disease, but little attention has been paid to the ...

    • Quantitation of endogenous amount of ethanol, methanol and acetaldehyde in ripe fruits of different Spanish olive varieties 

      Boudebouz, Abdelaziz; Romero, Agustí; Boqué, Ricard; Aceña, Laura; Busto, Olga; Mestres, Montserrat (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2020-02-25) Fructicultura
      BACKGROUND The use of healthy olives and their good management along the production process are necessary to obtain the best quality virgin olive oils. One parameter related to the health of the olives ...

    • Dairy farmers’ decision‐making to implement biosecurity measures: A study of psychosocial factors 

      Moya, Sebastián; Tirado, Francisco; Espluga, Josep; Ciaravino, Giovanna; Armengol, Ramon; Diéguez, Javier; Yus, Eduardo; Benavides, Bibiana; Casal, Jordi; Allepuz, Alberto (Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2019-10-10) Sanitat Animal
      Biosecurity measures are a set of management procedures that prevent the risk of introducing and spreading infectious diseases to a farm, although these measures are rarely implemented in dairy farms. ...

    • Modelling physiological and environmental factors regulating relative fruit set and final fruit numbers in apple trees 

      Lordan, Jaume; Reginato, Gabino H.; Lakso, Alan N.; Francescatto, Poliana; Robinson, Terence L. (Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 2020-02-19) Fructicultura
      Chemical thinning of apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) has been practised for 50 years but it remains an unpredictable part of apple production with large variations from year to year and within years. ...

    • Systems analysis reveals complex biological processes during virus infection fate decisions 

      Argilaguet, Jordi; Pedragosa, Mireia; Esteve-Codina, Anna; Riera, Graciela; Vidal, Enric; Peligero-Cruz, Cristina; Casella, Valentina; Andreu, David; Kaisho, Tsuneyasu; Bocharov, Gennady; Ludewig, Burkhard; Heath, Simon; Meyerhans, Andreas (Genome Research, 2019-05-28) Sanitat Animal
      The processes and mechanisms of virus infection fate decisions that are the result of a dynamic virus-immune system interaction with either an efficient effector response and virus elimination or an ...

    • Characterization and evolution of countries affected by bovine brucellosis (1996–2014) 

      Cárdenas, Liliana; Awada, Lina; Tizzani, Paolo; Cáceres, Paula; Casal, Jordi (Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2019-02-10) Sanitat Animal
      This paper describes the global distribution and temporal evolution of bovine brucellosis due to Brucella abortus during a 19‐year period (1996–2014) using the information officially reported to the ...

    • Field-captured Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830) is a competent vector for Rift Valley fever phlebovirus in Europe 

      Birnberg, Lotty; Talavera, Sandra; Aranda, Carles; Núñez, Ana I.; Napp, Sebastian; Busquet, Núria (Parasites and Vectors, 2019-10-16) Sanitat Animal
      BACKGROUND: Aedes vexans (Meigen) is considered a nuisance species in central Europe and the Mediterranean region. It is an anthropophilic and mammalophilic floodwater mosquito involved in the transmission ...

    • Detection of MERS-CoV antigen on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded nasal tissue of alpacas by immunohistochemistry using human monoclonal antibodies directed against different epitopes of the spike protein 

      Haverkamp, Ann-Kathrin; Bosch, Berend J.; Spitzbarth, Ingo; Lehmbecker, Annika; Te, Nigeer; Bensaid, Albert; Segalés, Joaquim; Baumgärtner, Wolfgang (Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 2019-09-09) Sanitat Animal
      Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) represents an important respiratory disease accompanied by lethal outcome in one third of human patients. In recent years, several investigators developed protective ...

    • Development of a new largely scalable in vitro prion propagation method for the production of infectious recombinant prions for high resolution structural studies 

      Eraña, Hasier; Charco, Jorge M.; Di Bar, Michele A.; Díaz-Domínguez, Carlos M.; López-Moreno, Rafael; Vidal, Enric; González-Miranda, Ezequiel; Pérez-Castro, Miguel A.; García-Martínez, Sandra; Bravo, Susana; Fernández-Borges, Natalia; Geijo, Mariví; D’Agostino, Claudia; Garrido, Joseba; Bian, Jifeng; König, Anna; Uluca-Yazgi, Boran; Sabate, Raimon; Khaychuk, Vadim; Vanni, Ilaria; Telling, Glenn C.; Heise, Henrike; Nonno, Romolo; Requena, Jesús R.; Castilla, Joaquín (PLoS Pathogens, 2019-10-23) Sanitat Animal
      The resolution of the three-dimensional structure of infectious prions at the atomic level is pivotal to understand the pathobiology of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE), but has been long ...

    • Predicting the success of an invader: Niche shift versus niche conservatism 

      Sherpa, Stéphanie; Guéguen, Maya; Renaud, Julien; Blum, Michael G. B.; Gaude, Thierry; Laporte, Frédéric; Akiner, Mustafa; Alten, Bulent; Aranda, Carles; Barre‐Cardi, Hélène; Bellini, Romeo; Bengoa Paulis, Mikel; Chen, Xiao‐Guang; Eritja, Roger; Flacio, Eleonora; Foxi, Cipriano; Ishak, Intan H.; Kalan, Katja; Kasai, Shinji; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Pajović, Igor; Petrić, Dušan; Termine, Rosa; Turić, Nataša; Vazquez‐Prokopec, Gonzalo M.; Velo, Enkelejda; Vignjević, Goran; Zhou, Xiaohong; Després, Laurence (Ecology and Evolution, 2019-10-25) Sanitat Animal
      Invasive species can encounter environments different from their source populations, which may trigger rapid adaptive changes after introduction (niche shift hypothesis). To test this hypothesis, we ...

    • Inheritance and QTL analysis of chilling and heat requirements for flowering in an interspecific almond x peach (Texas x Earlygold) F2 population 

      Cantin, Celia M.; Wang, Xin-Wei; Almira, María; Arús, Pere; Eduardo, Iban (Springer Verlag, 2020-03-04) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Blooming in temperate fruit species is triggered by chilling and heat requirements (CR and HR), with a wide range of requirements within the same species. CR for flower bud dormancy release has become ...

    • Infection dynamics of porcine circovirus type 3 in longitudinally sampled pigs from four Spanish farms 

      Klaumann, Francini; Correa-Fiz, Florencia; Sibila, Marina; Núñez, José Ignacio; Segalés, Joaquim (Veterinary Record, 2019-04-30) Sanitat Animal
      Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV-3) is a recently discovered virus in domestic pigs and wild boar. The virus has been described in pigs with different clinical/pathological presentations and healthy ...

    • Fatal Photobacterium damselae-induced enteritis in a leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea 

      Oliver-Guimerá, Arturo; Lourdes Abarca, María; Cuvertoret-Sanz, María; Domingo, Mariano (Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 2019-08-08) Sanitat Animal
      Stranded leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea complete pathology reports are rare, and the cause of mortality is difficult to determine in many cases. We conducted a complete pathological study of a ...

    • Description of the first Schmallenberg disease outbreak in Spain and subsequent virus spreading in domestic ruminants 

      Jiménez-Ruiz, Saúl; Paniagua, Jorge; Isla, Julio; Martínez-Padilla, Ana Belén; de los Ángeles Risalde, María; Caballero-Gómez, Javier; Cano-Terriza, David; Pujols, Joan; Arenas, Antonio; García-Bocanegra, Ignacio (Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2019-06-10) Sanitat Animal
      Schmallenberg disease (SBD) is an emerging disease transmitted mainly among ruminant species by biting midges of the genus Culicoides. Since the Schmallenberg virus (SBV) was first identified in Germany ...