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Subject: JABAG Livestock Metagenomics Special Issue
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:10:12 -0600

Call for Papers – Special Issue on Livestock Metagenomics

31st January 2019

The Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics is currently inviting
submissions for a special issue on microbiome analyses in the context of
animal genetics. Microbiomes and their effects on host phenotypes have
emerged as major factors to be considered in animal science. Current
generation sequencing technologies has made it affordable to analyse a
large number of microbiota samples with a price typically lower than
that of a SNP genotyping chip (for the 16S gene re-sequencing approach).
The effect of microbiota on feed efficiency, host health, methane
emissions and many other traits is beyond discussion. What is less
clear, though, is how microbiome data can be incorporated in current
genetic evaluations. The term ‘microbiability’ has been coined as the
proportion of phenotypic variance explained by the microbiome, although
its real usefulness and biological interpretation has been disputed. It
is also possible to perform metagenome-wide association studies to link
microbiota with host phenotypes. Certainly, the microbiome can also be
analysed as an ordinary phenotype in evaluating the effect of host
genetics on microbiota composition. It is, e.g., possible to compare
different breeds with a shared environment in terms of their microbiota
as is to assess the impact of environmental changes on microbiome for a
fixed genotype. Further, metagenomic studies can be performed on
different animal receptacles (rumen, gut, respiratory system, ...) and
at different time points, adding an extra layer of complexity.

Manuscripts describing novel results on these and related topics are
invited for submission. In addition to regular papers, the issue will
contain reviews on methodological aspects and on the most relevant
recent advances in different livestock species. Review papers will be
accepted by invitation only. If you are willing to submit a contributed
review, please contact the editors with tentative title, abstract and
list of authors beforehand. Previous inquiry is not necessary for
contributed papers presenting original results.

Guidelines: For guidelines on how to prepare your manuscript for
submission, please refer to the journal’s author guidelines page here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...thors.html

How to Submit: When your manuscript is ready for submission, please
submit online via the journal’s online submission system:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jabg. Upon submission, please indicate
that your manuscript is for a Special Issue.

Submission deadline: June 15th, 2019
Intended publication date of the special issue: Late 2019/Early 2020

Guest Editors: Jordi Estellé 1 and Miguel Pérez-Enciso 2

1 jordi.estelleinra.fr, GABI, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université
Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas,
France.
2 miguel.perezuab.es, ICREA, Barcelona and Centre for Research in
Agricultural Genomics
(CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Bellaterra, Spain


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Jordi Estellé i Fabrellas, DVM, PhD

INRA, Département de Génétique Animale
UMR1313 Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative (GABI)
Equipe Génétique de la Microbiote et la Santé (GéMS)

Domaine de Vilvert, INRA, Bâtiment GABI-320
78352 Jouy-en-Josas Cedex, France

Phone: +33 (0)1 34 65 2500
Fax: +33 (0)1 34 65 2964
E-mail: Jordi.Estelleinra.fr

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6241-1732


 
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