1. Egg production and quality under three housing systems in the tropics

   • Grissly Varguez-Montero
   • Luis Sarmiento-Franco
   • Jose Segura-Correa

   Brief Communication 15 November 2011 Pages: 201 - 204

2. Luís Manuel Justino Schwalbach (1966–2011)

   • Luís Alfaro Cardoso
   • André Martinho Almeida

   Brief Communication 11 November 2011 Pages: 205 - 206

   

3. Implementation of herd health program to improve survival of Boer goats in Malaysia

   • Mohd Shahrom Salisi
   • Mohd Zamri Saad
   • Azhar Kasim

   Brief Communication 15 November 2011 Pages: 207 - 211

   

4. Rapid immunofiltration assay based on colloidal gold–protein G conjugate as an alternative screening test for bovine and ovine brucellosis

   • Oktay Genç
   • Özlem Büyüktanır
   • Nevzat Yurdusev

   Brief Communication 21 November 2011 Pages: 213 - 215

   

5. Fattening performance of purebred and crossbred lambs from fat-tailed Kurdi ewes mated to four Iranian native ram breeds

   • Ali K. Esmailizadeh
   • Mostafa Nemati
   • Mortaza S. Mokhtari

   Original Research 11 November 2011 Pages: 217 - 223

6. Biodiversity and prevalence of parasites of domestic pigeons (Columba livia domestica) in a selected semiarid zone of South Khorasan, Iran

   • Mohammad Hossein Radfar
   • Ehsan Norouzi Asl
   • Saeid Fathi

   Original Research 12 November 2011 Pages: 225 - 229

7. Management, productivity and livelihood effects on Kenyan smallholder dairy farms from interventions addressing animal health and nutrition and milk quality

   • John A. VanLeeuwen
   • Teresa Mellish
   • Jeff Wichtel

   Original Research 12 November 2011 Pages: 231 - 238

8. Reproductive performance in sows in relation to Japanese Encephalitis Virus seropositivity in an endemic area

   • Johanna Lindahl
   • Sofia Boqvist
   • Ulf Magnusson

   Original Research Open access 12 November 2011 Pages: 239 - 245

9. Molecular characterization of intercellular adhesion gene in Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bovine mastitic milk

   • Somanath Kundalik Chavhan
   • Dewanand Rajaram Kalorey
   • Nitin Vasantrao Kurkure

   Original Research 18 November 2011 Pages: 247 - 252

   

10. Serological evidence for brucellosis in Bos indicus in Nigeria

    • Wilson J. Bertu
    • Amahyel M. Gusi
    • Henk L. Smits

    Original Research 16 November 2011 Pages: 253 - 258

    

11. Changes of vitamins A, E, and C and lipid peroxidation status of breeding and pregnant sheep during dry seasons on medium-to-low quality forages

    • Mehdi Mohebbi-Fani
    • Abdollah Mirzaei
    • Zahra Shabbooie

    Original Research 15 November 2011 Pages: 259 - 265

    

12. Effect of adaptation strategies when feeding fresh cassava foliage on intake and physiological responses of lambs

    • Khuc Thi Hue
    • Do Thi Thanh Van
    • Ewa Wredle

    Original Research 12 November 2011 Pages: 267 - 276

    

13. Polymorphism analysis of BMPR1B gene by forced RFLP and PCR-SSCP techniques and expression of the mutation in introgressed sheep

    • Tasleem Ahmad Shamas Ganai
    • Siddhartha Sarathi Misra
    • Mir Shabir

    Original Research 16 November 2011 Pages: 277 - 283

    

14. Influence of processing cassava peels on the hydrogen cyanide concentration, nutritive value and performance of growing rabbits

    • Olurotimi Ayobami Olafadehan
    • Oluwatoyin Osuahre Olafadehan
    • Nyam Emmanuel Daniel

    Original Research 16 November 2011 Pages: 285 - 291

15. Effect of nutrient density on production performance, egg quality and humoral immune response of brown laying (Dahlem Red) hens in the tropics

    • Arun Kumar Panda
    • Savaram Venkata Rama Rao
    • Maddula Ramkoti Reddy

    Original Research 19 November 2011 Pages: 293 - 299

    

16. Seroprevalence of Peste des petits ruminants in cattle and buffaloes from Southern Peninsular India

    • Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
    • Paramanandham Krishnamoorthy
    • Krishnamsetty Prabhudas

    Original Research 22 November 2011 Pages: 301 - 306

    

17. Identification of shiga toxin and intimin coding genes in Escherichia coli isolates from pigeons (Columba livia) in relation to phylotypes and antibiotic resistance patterns

    • Reza Ghanbarpour
    • Shirin Daneshdoost

    Original Research 22 November 2011 Pages: 307 - 312

18. Comparison of detection procedures of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, Mycoplasma hyosynoviae, and Mycoplasma hyorhinis in lungs, tonsils, and synovial fluid of slaughtered pigs and their distributions in Thailand

    • Metta Makhanon
    • Padet Tummaruk
    • Nuvee Prapasarakul

    Original Research 25 November 2011 Pages: 313 - 318

19. An epidemiological survey on bovine and ovine babesiosis in Kurdistan Province, western Iran

    • Mahdi Fakhar
    • Atta Hajihasani
    • Abdol Sattar Pagheh

    Original Research 23 November 2011 Pages: 319 - 322

20. Seasonal prevalence of coccidiosis in industrial broiler chickens in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

    • Mian Muhammad Awais
    • Masood Akhtar
    • Muhammad Irfan Anwar

    Original Research 20 November 2011 Pages: 323 - 328

    

21. On-farm evaluation of the effect of coffee pulp supplementation on milk yield and dry matter intake of dairy cows grazing tropical grasses in central Mexico

    • Paulina Pedraza-Beltrán
    • Julieta G. Estrada-Flores
    • Octavio A. Castelán-Ortega

    Original Research 26 November 2011 Pages: 329 - 336

    

22. Genetic parameters for birth weight, weaning weight and age at first calving in Brown Swiss cattle in Mexico

    • José C. Segura-Correa
    • Ricardo C. Chin-Colli
    • Rafael Núñez-Domínguez

    Original Research 24 November 2011 Pages: 337 - 341

23. Anti-babesial activity of a potent peptide fragment derived from longicin of Haemaphysalis longicornis

    • Remil Linggatong Galay
    • Hiroki Maeda
    • Kozo Fujisaki

    Original Research 20 November 2011 Pages: 343 - 348

    

24. Effect of supplemental yeast culture and physiological factors on colostrum and milk composition of Pelibuey ewes

    • Rafael Julio Macedo
    • Victalina Arredondo
    • Rosario Rodríguez

    Original Research 29 November 2011 Pages: 349 - 354

25. Steroid hormone profile of Markhoz does (Iranian Angora) throughout estrous cycle and gestation period

    • Javad Talebi
    • Aliasghar Moghaddam
    • Rouhollah Mirmahmoudi

    Original Research 24 November 2011 Pages: 355 - 360

    

26. Intake, digestibility, performance, and carcass traits of beef cattle of different gender

    • Igor Nero Kelles Lage
    • Pedro Veiga Rodruigues Paulino
    • Cesar Roberto Vianna Teixeira

    OriginalPaper 09 December 2011 Pages: 361 - 367

27. Detection of stapylococcal enterotoxin, methicillin-resistant and Panton–Valentine leukocidin genes in coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from cows and ewes with subclinical mastitis

    • Nilgün Ünal
    • Oya Doğu Çinar

    Original Research 11 December 2011 Pages: 369 - 375