Всероссийский научно-исследовательский институт физиологии, биохимии и питания животных – филиал Федерального государственного бюджетного научного учреждения «Федеральный научный центр животноводства – ВИЖ имени академика Л.К. Эрнста»
The basic purpose of journal is to serve the function of a connecting link between basic research and developments having the important value for development in the area of animal husbandry. The demand for handling this function is dictated by many objective circumstances and subjective factors stemming from the features of the current state of science in Russia.
From time immemorial, the populations of domestic animals were adapted to aboriginal conditions, and for their maintenance it was not required an express science. Now, the world has become totally different. The promotion of modern intensive technologies brings up the problem of antagonism between high productivity and viability traits of farm animals which exert an adverse effect on profitability, quality of products and their safety for the person.
The unity of biosphere is a reality which, unfortunately, is at times reversed also by drama sides. Nobody is insured from the danger of originating new diseases and diffusion of latent genetic defects as technogenic loads are increasing and trans-boundary transfer of breeding material becomes more and more intensive. The resolution of practical problems all depends on a progress in the fundamental biological research amounting a basis of zootechny, in particular, in such areas as animal nutrition, regulation of reproductive functions, genetics and selection.
A priority and significance of the general problem of nutrition in XX century was expressed in award of Nobel Prizes, in particular, to I.P. Pavlov (physiology of digestion), A. Virtanen (study of chemistry of nutrients and forages for ruminants), L. Kantorovich e.a. (a method of linear programming of rations), D. Boyd Оrr (for the big contribution to the resolution of a food problem in the world). In XXI century, the acuteness and importance of food problem not only have not decreased, but have increased repeatedly.
Effective utilization of quickly growing volumes of information is a necessary pre-condition for going to the novel technological structure and knowledge economics. The journal sets as the purpose to promote formation of an expert association from authoritative Russian scientists and foreign colleagues. The especial attention is concentrated on the publication of reviews on a wide spectrum of problems in the fields of productive animals biology, technologies of live systems, food ecology and adjoining areas of knowledge.
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MAIN EDITORS
Cherepanov, Gennadii G., Head of Department, Institute of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Nutrition, Borovsk Kaluga oblast, Russian Federation; physicist/chemist by University education, in 1968 started to work in the field of using radioactive tracer methods and modeling in the studies of animal metabolism, from 1980 he devoted his work to integrate research information from divergent fields of biological research to find solutions of complex problems. Defended in 1992 Dissertation Dr. Sci. in Biology entitled “Structure-functional analysis and modeling of the processes of metabolism and growth of farm animals in relation to evaluation and prediction of their productive traits”; the author of over 200 papers, 7 monographs, has several patents on inventions, awarded with Diploma of Ministry of Agriculture of Russian Federation (2001) and N.V. Timofeev-Resovskii scientific premium (2006); series of scientific projects was substantiated by Russian Foundation of Basic Research. Currently his scientific interests include the development of multidisciplinary approach to solve complex problems arising in the biology of high-producing animals. Main advances: morpho-physiological conception and the system modeling of growth of productive animals (bulls, heifers, pigs); system-kinetic model of the formation of substrates balance in lactating mammary gland; simulation modeling of rumen biocenosis and absorption of substrates in ruminants; novel conception on key role of constitutive resistance for longevity of high-producing cows.
Main papers:
Cherepanov G.G., Danfaer A., Cant J.P. Simulation analysis of substrate utilization in the mammary gland of lactating cow. J. Dairy Res. 2000, 67: 171-188.
Cherepanov G.G. Мorpho-physiological conception and model of animal growth. J. Anim. Feed Sci. 2001, 10: 385-397.
Cherepanov G.G., Agaphonov V.I. Estimation of substrate-energetic fluxes in lactating cows. J. Anim. Feed Sci. 2010, 19(1): 13-23.
Cherepanov G.G., Makar Z.N. Evaluation of methods used in vivo to estimate the transfer of amino acids and other substrates into the cells of mammary gland. J. Anim. Feed Sci. 2010, 19(2): 183-194.
Cherepanov G.G., Bogdanova N.A., Makar Z.N. Special traits of the age dynamics of milk production in dairy cows in relation to their viability. Russian Agricultural Sciences, 2013, 39(5-6): 442-445.
Galochkin V.A., Cherepanov G.G. Natural resistance of productive animals: difficulties of identification, problems and ways of their solution. Problemy biologii productivnykh zhivotnykh - Problems of Productive Animal Biology, 2013, 1: 5-29 (In Russ.)
Marzanov, Nurbii S., Prof., Head of lab., Institute of Animal Husbandry, Dubrovitsy-Podolsk, Moscow oblast, since 1974 worked in Institute of Sheep and Goats Husbandry (Stavropol) and in Moldova Institute of Animal Breeding and Veterinary Medicine, in 1979 worked on probation in Institute of Zootechnics (Krakov/Balice, Poland), defended in 1993 Dr. Sci. Dissertation entitled “Physiological blood markers of sheep and goats: theoretical and applied aspects of their application”, participant of many international conferences, materials have been published in proceedings of International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG, 1982, 1999-2003), European Association for Animal Production (EAAP, 1982), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, 1998), World Federation of Merino Sheep Breeders (2001); the author of over 300 papers, 11 monographs, awarded with premium of RF government on elaboration and introduction of genetic monitoring in selection of farm animals (2002); participant of the Russia-Finland project “Russia During the Process of Changes”. His scientific interests include genetics, biotechnology, animal physiology. Main scientific advances. There were investigated the features of allele pool on blood groups, polymorphic proteins of blood and milk in 47 breeds and crosses of sheep and goats in RF, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Ukraine, the origin and evolution of sheep breeds on various types of genetic markers including blood groups, polymorphisms of blood and milk proteins, microsatellites, mitDNA and Y-chromosomes. The diagnostic methods were elaborated and the investigations were carried out on gene geography of alleles BL (leukocyte adhesion deficiency) and CV (complex vertebral anomaly) in elite bull-sires with the aim to eradicate mutant alleles in high-producing studs of cattle. A system of cytogenetic monitoring was elaborated for farm animals.
Main papers:
Chessa B., Pereira F., Arnaud F., Amorim A., Goyache F., Mainland I., Kao R.R., Pemberton J.M., Beraldi D.,Stear M., Alberti A., Pittau M., Banabazi M.H., Kazwala R., Zhang Y.-P., Arranz J.J., Ali B.A., Wang Z., Uzun M., Dione M., Olsaker I., Holm L.-E., Saarma U., Ahmad S., Marzanov N., Eythorsdottir E., Holland M.,Ajmone-Marsan P., Bruford M.W., Kantanen J., Spencer T.E., Palmarini M.E. Revealing the history of sheep domestication using retrovirus integrations. Science. 2009, 324 (5926): 532-536. (DOI:10.1126/science.1170587).
Tapio M., Ozerov M., Kantanen J., Marzanov N., Ćinkulov M., Gonzarenko G., Kiselyova T., Murawski M., Viinalass H. Sheep mitochondrial DNA variation in European, Caucasian, and Central Asian areas. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2006, 23(9): 1776. (DOI:10.1093/molbev/msl043)
Li M.-H., Tapio I., Vilkki J., Kantanen J., Ivanova Z., Kiselyova T., Marzanov N., Ćinkulov M., Stojanović S., Ammosov I., Popov R. The genetic structure of cattle populations (Bos taurus) in Northern Eurasia and the neighbouring near eastern regions: implications for breeding strategies and conservation. Molecular Ecology. 2007, 16(18): 3839-3853. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03437.x)
Meadows J.R.S., Kijas J.W., Hanotte O., Drögemüller C., Calvo J., Godfrey R., Coltman D., Maddox J.F., Marzanov N., Kantanen J. Globally dispersed chromosomal haplotypes in wild and domestic sheep. Animal Genetics. 2006, 37(5): 444-453. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2006.01496.x)
Tapio M., Ozerov M., Tapio I., Kantanen J., Toro M.A., Marzanov N., Ćinkulov M., Goncharenko G., Kiselyova T., Murawski M. Microsatellite-based genetic diversity and population structure of domestic sheep in Northern Eurasia. BMC Genetics. 2010, 11: 76. (DOI:10.1186/1471-2156-11-76)
Marcos-Carcavilla A., González C., Serrano M., Mutikainen M., Kantanen J., Calvo J.H., Sanz A., Marzanov N.S., Pérez-Guzmán M.D. A SNP in the hsp90aa1 gene 5' flanking region is associated with the adaptation to differential thermal conditions in the ovine species. Cell Stress & Chaperones. 2010, 15(1): 95-100. (DOI: 10.1007/s12192-009-0123-z).
Kuz’mina, Victoriya V., prof., Chief Researcher, Papanin Institute of Inland Waters Biology, BorokYaroslavl oblast, Russian Federation, member of the Editorial Board in Journal of Costal Life, Biologiya vnutrennikh vod – Inland Waters Biology (in Russ.), in 1987 defended Dr. Sci. Dissertation entitled “General regularities of membrane digestion and its adaptive adjustments in fishes”, published more than 400 scientific articles and monographs. Area of scientific interests include basic aspects of trophology, hydrobiology and ichthyology, ecological physiology and biochemistry, comparative and evolutionary physiology, adaptations of digestive enzymes of fish and intestinal microbiota to natural and anthropogenic factors, regulation of metabolism and feeding behavior of fishes. Scientific advances: evaluation of basic physiological and biochemical mechanisms of the trophic relationships between fishes and their potential nutrition objects; elaboration of the synthetic theory of the regulation of exotrophy processes and feeding behavior of fish.
Monographs:
Kuz’mina V.V. Physiological and Biochemical Principles of Exotrophy Processes in Fish (Ed. V.N. Yakovlev). Moscow: Nauka, 2005, 300 p. ISBN 5-02-033702-1 (in Russ.).
Kuz’mina V.V. Physiology of Feeding in Fish. Influence of External and Internal Factors (Ed. Ju.V. Gerasimov). Borok: I.D.Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, 2008, 276 p. ISBN 078-5-904234-02-07 (in Russ.).
Vasilenko, Tat’yana F., Prof., Head of lab., Institute of Physiology, Komi Scientific Centre, Ural Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar; defended in 2008 Dissertation Dr. Sci. in Biology entitled “Estrous cycles in domestic and wild animals during lactation period”, author of over 120 papers, 2 monographs, 15 patents RF, awarded with Diplomas of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (1999), the Bureau and the Workers' Union of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2001), Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Komi (2009) and with Certificate of Merit of Komi Republic (2012). Scientific interests include ecological physiology of ruminants, reproduction physiology of domestic and wild animals, physiology of estrous cycles. Main results: physiological and biochemical peculiarities of reproductive function revealed in ruminant females reared in North region, established metabolic factors contributing to formation of physiologically valuable estrous cycles in the productive ruminant females of different ages, elaborated methods of normalization of the estrous cycles in cows using feed additives and bio-stimulants.
Main publications:
Vasilenko T.F. Pre- and postpartum blood values and postpartum cell content of vaginal smears of female moose and dairy cows. Alces.1999, 35: 135-141.
Vasilenko T.F., Sivoxa I.N., Kozhykhov M.V., Lemons P.R. Peculiarities of daily milk productivity of Pechora taiga domesticated cow moose and their interconnection with reproductive function. Alces. 2001, 37(1): 123-128.
Vasilenko T.F. Resumption of ovary activity and normal estrous cycles in postpartum cows after the application of placenta containing additives in the diet. Integrative Zoology. 2006, 2: 69-71.
Vasilenko T.F., Roshchevsky M.P. The Role of Total Cholesterol in Restoration of Estrous Cycles in Animals. Doklady Biological Sciences, 2008. 418 (4): 562-563.
Vasilenko T. F., Mongalev N. P., Chuv’yurova N. I. Fiziologiya estral’noi tsiklichnosti v reproduktivnoi funktsii korov (Physiology of estrous cycles and reproductive function of cows). Ekaterinburg: Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011. 176 p. (In Russ.)
Shevelev, Alexei B., Prof., Head of lab. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, graduated from biological faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University on speciality “Molecular biology”. Area of scientific interests include structure-functional organization of proteolytic enzymes, growth factors, bacterial factors of pathogenicity, plant inhibitors of proteases, viral antigens, structure and function of immunoglobulins, new systems of immunological detection, vaccines. Main lines of inquiry: microbial expression systems for production of pharmacologically active proteins, protein probes. Scientific advices: industrial producers of neutral and basic proteases on a basis of bacilli, laboratory producers of botulinum anatoxins, p24 antigen of human immunedeficit virus, mechano-growth factor, follistatin, myostatin, tumor necrosis factor, swine and chicken somatoliberins, antigens of hepatitis C virus and hantaviruses.
Main papers:
Ivanov P.A., Lewitin E.I., Shevelev B.I., Fominov G.V., Wojciechowska J.A., Asadi Mobarhan A.H., Vertiev Y.V., Yankovsky N.K., Shevelev A.B. Sup35p yeast prion-like protein as an adapter for production of the Gag-p55 antigen of HIV-1 and the L-chain of botulinum neurotoxin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Research in Microbiology. 2001; 152(1): 27-35.
Speransky AS, Cimaglia F, Krinitsina AA, Poltronieri P, Fasano P, Bogacheva AM, Valueva TA, Halterman D, Shevelev AB, Santino A. Kunitz-type protease inhibitors group B from Solanum palustre. Biotechnol. J. 2007, 2(11): 1417-1424. PubMed PMID: 17639528.
Kuznetsova T.V., Schulga A.A., Wulfson A.N., Keruchenko J.S., Ermolyuk Y.S., Keruchenko I.D., Tikhonov R.V., Lisitskaya K.V., Makarov A.A., Chobotova K., Khomenkov V.G., Khotchenkov V.P., Popov V.O., Kirpichnikov M.P., Shevelev A.B. Producing human mechano-growth factor (MGF) in Escherichia coli. Protein Expression and Purification. 2008, 58(1): 70-77.
Epova E., Guseva M., Kovalyov L., Isakova E., Deryabina Yu., Belyakova A., Zylkova M. and Shevelev A. Identification of proteins involved in pH adaptation in extremophile yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. In: Proteomic applications in biology. Chapter 10 (Eds J.L. Heazlewood, Ch.J. Petzold). InTech, 2012, pp. 209-224.
Makar, Zinoviy N., Leading Researcher, Institute of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Nutrition, Borovsk Kaluga oblast, Russian Federation, graduated from L’viv State University (Ukraine), worked on probation in Pushchino Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, defended in 2012 Dr. Sci. Dissertation in physiology on the theme: “Regulation of blood supply and functional activity of mammary gland in ruminants”, the author of over 80 papers, has two patents on inventions, awarded with N.V. Timofeev-Resovskii scientific premium (2006); series of scientific projects was substantiated by Russian Foundation of Basic Research. His scientific interests include physiology of lactation; regulation of metabolic processes, methods of increasing milk productivity in cows and goats. Scientific advances: evaluation of the key factors of conjugated control of blood flow rate and functional activity of mammary gland in ruminants; substantiation of stimulatory effect of feeding recombinant lactobacilli expressing growth hormone releasing factor on milk formation in dairy cows and goats; methods of increasing milk protein production in ruminants.
Main papers:
Makar Z.N., Mescheryakov V.P. Effects of milking on the blood supply in the cow's udder using two different milking machines: a conventional one and one equipped with a vibropulsator. 5th Joint EAAP/ASAS Workshop on Biology of Lactation in Farm Animals. Hague, Netherlands, August 2000. Livest. Prod. Science. 2001, 70(1-2): 180.
Makar Z.N., Twerskoy G.B., Cherepanov G.G. The effect of cessation of periodic empting of alveolar compartment of mammary gland on the haemodynamics and secretory function. 5th Joint EAAP/ASAS Workshop on Biology of Lactation in Farm Animals. Hague, Netherlands, August 2000. Livest. Prod. Science. 2001, 70(1-2): 181.
Makar Z.N., Corneeva R.I., Sapunov M.I., Cherepanov G.G. About the mechanisms of nutritional effects on functional activity of the mammary glands in ruminants. Problemy biologii productivnykh zhivotnykh - Problems of Productive Animal Biology, 2007, 1: 52-61 (In Russ.)
Cherepanov G.G., Makar Z.N. Evaluation of methods used in vivo to estimate the transport of amino acids and other substrates into the cells of mammary gland. J. Anim. Feed Sci. 2010, 19(2): 183-194.
Makar Z.N. Effect of probiotic preparation of recombinant lactobacilli expressing growth hormone releasing factor on milk productivity in goats and cows. Problemy biologii productivnykh zhivotnykh - Problems of Productive Animal Biology, 2013, 1: 30-38 (In Russ.)