TY - CHAP AU - Anicke Brandt‐Kjelsen AU - Brit Salbu AU - Anna Haug AU - Joanna Szpunar ED - Milad Manafi Y1 - 2017-02-15 PY - 2017 T1 - Selenium Requirements and Metabolism in Poultry N2 - When it comes to life science and specially by considering animal-origin protein, one of the main topics to gain importance with respect to human nutrition and health is poultry science. This book presents an introductory overview to the different fields/branches of poultry science with four main divisions: different feed resources for poultry, biofilms of salmonella and campylobacter in the poultry industry, prevention of different contaminants in modern poultry farms, and mycotoxins in poultry feed. This book will be beneficial for the graduate students, teachers, researchers, farmers, and other professionals, who are interested to fortify and expand their knowledge about chicken products in fields of poultry science, biotechnology, plant science, and agriculture. BT - Poultry Science SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/64879 DO - 10.5772/64879 SN - 978-953-51-2946-2 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -