Philippe Morganx's scientific contributions

Publications (4)

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An increase in egg incubation temperature was previously shown to enhance the metabolism of mule ducks and increase liver fattening after overfeeding, through a metabolic programming mechanism. Here we examined whether fasting (F) followed by refeeding (RF) in 11-week-old mule ducks, could become an accelerated model to study the mechanisms of meta...
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Egg incubation of mule ducks, mainly used for fatty liver production, is one of the critical phases in this sector. Based on hatching rate, the best incubation parameters have already been well described for poultry, but the literature on ducks is lacking. In this study, we tested different incubation conditions by varying two important factors, te...

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... Luo et al. (2018) reported that intermittent temperature caused much greater negative effects on production performance by reducing daily feed intake, egg mass, and egg weight of laying ducks. Similarly, excessive ambient temperature has been reported to distort metabolism all through the embryonic development stage and this is due to fluctuations in the chemical constituent of duck eggs under high temperature (Andrieux et al. 2022). Although small flock sizes have been reported among NLDs, the age at the first egg for these NLDs ranges between 6-8 months with about 2 to 4 production cycles per year with an average of 13 to 15 eggs per cycle (Oguntunji et al., 2015). ...