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Massimiliano Petracci

Full Professor

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Academic discipline: AGR/20 Aquaculture, Poultry and Rabbit Science

Coordinator of PhD Programme in Agricultural, Environmental and Food Science and Technology

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NEW INSIGHTS ON BREAST ABNORMALITIES IN POULTRY

During the last few months many articles on broiler breast myopathies have been published:

Baldi, G., Soglia, F., Mazzoni, M., Sirri, F., Canonico, L., Babini, E., Laghi, L., Cavani, C., & Petracci, M. (2018a). Implications of white striping and spaghetti meat abnormalities on meat quality and histological features in broilers. Animal, 12(1), 164-173.

Boerboom, G., van Kempen, T., Navarro-Villa, A., & Pérez-Bonilla, A. (2018). Unraveling the cause of white striping in broilers using metabolomics. Poultry Science, doi:10.3382/ps/pey266.

Córdova-Noboa, H. A., Oviedo-Rondón, E. O., Sarsour, A. H., Barnes, J., Ferzola, P., Rademacher-Heilshorn, M., & Braun, U. (2018a). Performance, meat quality, and pectoral myopathies of broilers fed either corn or sorghum based diets supplemented with guanidinoacetic acid. Poultry Science, 97(7), 2479-2493.

Córdova-Noboa, H. A., Oviedo-Rondón, E. O., Sarsour, A. H., Barnes, J., Sapcota, D., López, D., Gross, L., Rademacher-Heilshorn, M., & Braun, U. (2018b). Effect of guanidinoacetic acid supplementation on live performance, meat quality, pectoral myopathies and blood parameters of male broilers fed corn-based diets with or without poultry by-products. Poultry Science, 97(7), 2494-2505.

Griffin, J. R., Moraes, L., Wick, M., & Lilburn, M. S. (2018). Onset of white striping and progression into wooden breast as defined by myopathic changes underlying Pectoralis major growth. Estimation of growth parameters as predictors for stage of myopathy progression. Avian Pathology, 47(1), 2-13.

Hubert, S.M., Williams, T.W, Athrey, G. (2018). Insights into the molecular basis of wooden breast based on comparative analysis of fast- and slow-growth broilers. BioRxiv 356683; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/356683.

Kawasaki, T., Iwasaki, T., Yamada, M., Yoshida, T., & Watanabe, T. (2018). Rapid growth rate results in remarkably hardened breast in broilers during the middle stage of rearing: A biochemical and histopathological study. PloS One, 13(2), e0193307.

Livingston, M.L., Landon, C., Barnes, H.J. & Brake, J. (2018). White striping and wooden breast myopathies of broiler breast muscle is affected by time-limited feeding, genetic background, and egg storage. Poultry Science, doi: 10.3382/ps/pey33397.

Maxwell, A. D., Bowker, B. C., Zhuang, H., Chatterjee, D., & Adhikari, K. (2018). Descriptive sensory analysis of marinated and non-marinated wooden breast fillet portions. Poultry Science, dx.doi.org/10.3382/ps/pey145.

Meloche, K. J., Fancher, B. I., Emmerson, D. A., Bilgili, S. F., & Dozier III, W. A. (2018a). Effects of quantitative nutrient allocation on myopathies of the Pectoralis major muscles in broiler chickens at 32, 43, and 50 days of age. Poultry Science, 97(5), 1786-1793.

Meloche, K. J., Fancher, B. I., Emmerson, D. A., Bilgili, S. F., & Dozier, W. A. (2018b). Effects of reduced digestible lysine density on myopathies of the Pectoralis major muscles in broiler chickens at 48 and 62 days of age. Poultry Science, doi: 10.3382/ps/pey171

Meloche, K. J., Fancher, B. I., Emmerson, D. A., Bilgili, S. F., & Dozier III, W. A. (2018c). Effects of reduced dietary energy and amino acid density on Pectoralis major myopathies in broiler chickens at 36 and 49 days of age. Poultry Science, 97(5), 1794-1807.

Pampouille, E., Berri, C., Boitard, S., Hennequet-Antier, C., Beauclercq, S. A., Godet, E., Praud, C., Jégo, Y, & Le Bihan-Duval, E. (2018). Mapping QTL for white striping in relation to breast muscle yield and meat quality traits in broiler chickens. BMC genomics, 19(1), 202.

Sihvo, H. K., Airas, N., Lindén, J., & Puolanne, E. (2018). Pectoral vessel density and early ultrastructural changes in broiler chicken wooden breast myopathy. Journal of Comparative Pathology, 161(5), 1-10.

Soglia, F., Mazzoni, M., & Petracci, M. (2018). Current growth-related breast meat abnormalities in broilers. Avian Pathology, doi: 10.1080/03079457.2018.1508821.

Published on: August 23 2018