Stephanie Roto

IntroductionGiven the fact that the poultry industry has been a main contributor to the U.S. food supply over the past two decades, with an increase from $44.4 billion in value of production in 2013 to $48.3 billion in 2014, the necessity of capitalizing on the production of poultry is evident (1, 2). With the increasing trend to systematically remove sub-therapeutic levels of antibiotics from pou ...

IntroductionPoultry production in the past century has transitioned from predominantly breeding layers to breeding a mixture of both layers and broilers, based on the evolution of consumer demand (1–3). Success in the optimization of different broiler lines is due to genetics as well as optimizing diets with more precise nutritional formulations (4, 5). Comparison of individual genetic lines ...