NUTRIGENOMICS IN ANIMAL NUTRITION AND PERFORMANCE

Abstract

 Employing a mixed-methods experimental design, this paper examined the dietary changes that occur owing to nutrigenomics as it relates to nutrition and performance Outcomes of animals.  Treatment groups were applied on the animal’s differences being the nutrient level in the diet. These diets were the high-protein diets, omega-3 diets, antioxidant diets, enzyme pre-treated diets.  We obtained quantitative measures such as growth rate, feed conversion ratio, immunological measures, metabolic profiling, digestibility coefficients and nutrient retention efficiency. We also genomic profiled the animals by using RNA sequencing and visualized the impacts on genes, based on their diets.  It was demonstrated that the metabolic, immunological, growth-regulatory routes were tremendously altered. The diet with the highest performance indices was that of high protein and micronutrients.  Combined research indicated that in genes, which enhanced food metabolism held considerable ties with augmented feed efficiency, immune system performance and retention of nutrients in tissue.  Trends were graphed in performance, genomic correlations, and pathway enrichment and the dietary composition of the diet, genomic response, and overall performance scores were tabulated.  The analysis indicates that nutrigenomics may assist in developing a very accurate feeding program which enhances health and productivity. This offers a sustainable means of enhancing performance of cattle through knowledge of diet-gene interaction.  These findings have massive implications of animal agriculture in the future. They demonstrate how omics technology is to be employed in the nutrition management systems.