Editorial: Nutriomics in livestock research

Abstract

The development of high-throughput technology offers robust platforms to measure the components of the gut microbiota as well as proteins, metabolites, and coding and non-coding RNAs. Transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and metagenomics are just a few of the technologies that can be used to gather information about the genome and other biological molecules, and they are all effectively applied in the field of nutrigenomics, also known as nutritionomics, to shed light on the interactions between nutrition and the livestock genome. Integrating genomics and nutrition facilitates understanding the differences or similarities in how different candidate genes express themselves in response to food. Since nutriomics is still in its infancy, it presents an exciting potential in animal nutrition to ensure the quality of nutrition and its impact on general improvement of animal production. This Research Topic aims to assemble papers examining the effects of various diets (and/or nutrients) while feeding livestock, using nutriomics to increase productivity, enhance reproductive parameters, and prevent or modify livestock disease prevention. The nine publications that integrate this unique e-collection discuss various nutriomics topics in livestock.