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Halstead, B. W. In Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals United States Government Office, Washington D. C, 1%7, p 124 and p 215. 

Cuellar and Webber (2008) estimated that manure from 95,000,000 animal units (1000 pounds of animal) in the United States could produce approximately 1% of total U.S. energy consumption. Conversion of the biogas into electricity could produce 2.4 0.6% of annual electricity consumption with reduction of 3.9 2.3% of annual GHG emissions from electricity generation in the United States. 

Familyversus factory farms The Husbandry Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the humane treatment of animals, defines a family farm as a farm with less than 1,000 animal units, owned and operated by blood-related family members. A factory farm, or large farming operation, is defined by federal and some state statutes as a facility that contains at least 1,000 animal units. 

In active pasture systems for beef production, the harvested produa is the animal, with a potential to export relatively low amounts of P. Considering an average carrying capacity of 0.8 animal units per hectare per year (1 animal unit = 450 kg of live weight) for a typical Brachiaria brizantha pasture with medium productivity, the amount of P that could potentially be exported from the system in one year, due to meat production, would be around 2.5 kg per ha (based on a body composition of 0.7 % P for beef cattle). 

Because of the low P content (usually < 0.2 %) of forage plants, P supplementation is commonly practiced in most ranches throughout the Amazon basin, particularly in Brazilian Amazonia. Assuming a stocking rate of 0.8 animal units per hectare per year, the annual input of P to the system through animal consumption of mineral supplementation would be around 2.0 kg, which is close to the amount expected to be exported annually by animal products (2.5 kg). The amount thus needed to balance the cycle would be only 0.5 kg. In the absence of phosphate fertilizer inputs, this P must come from the soil pool reserves, through forage consumption. 

Fig. 13.47 Antagonist activity is proportional to the hydrophobicity of the animal unit Z.

Ministry of Defence. The Predominantly Peripheral Effects of Acute GB Poisoning in Anaesthetised Animals. United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. Unpublished report, n.d. 

This chapter examines the aspects of using ELISA to solve problems, definitions of terms met in serology, antibody structure and the production of antibodies in animals, units, dilutions, and molarities. Antibodiesj A Laboratory Manual (7) is an excellent manual of techniques relevant to ELISA and all scientists involved in experimental work involving antibodies should have this manual. The manuals given in refs. 2 and 3 also provide extensive relevant practical information. 

Kurata, M., Ichikawa, Y., Toya, M., Takahashi, I., Okui, Y. 1994. Resin moulding composition for preventing gnawing damage by animals. United States Patent No. 5,322,862. 

McPherson, C.W., Legislation regulations pertaining to laboratory animals - United States, in Handbock of Laboratory Animal Science, Vol. I, Melby, E.C. and Altman, N.H., Eds., CRC Press, OH, Cleveland,... 

A mixture of black pepper and capsicum oils and the oleoresin of rosemary is claimed to repel animals (United States Patent 6159474). 

Distribution of Diamine Oxidasb (Histaminase) in Tissues of Animals (Units per gram wet tissue)... 

Existing feeding systems have been developed to adjust rations to the genetic potential of animals, the main issue being productivity and profitability. The INEA feeding system includes a feed evaluation system that defines two nutritional values for each feed, an energy and a protein value, as well as a fill value. It also includes a nutritional requirement system applicable to all types of ruminants. The system is developed for animals as individuals and the metabolic animal unit is considered as a black box. This system is widely used in practice and has proved its robustness (INRA, 2007). 

Carotenoids are natural pigments characterized by a tail to tail linkage between two C20 units and an extended conjugated system of double bonds They are the most widely dis tributed of the substances that give color to our world and occur m flowers fruits plants insects and animals It has been estimated that biosynthesis from acetate produces approximately a hundred million tons of carotenoids per year The most familiar carotenoids are lycopene and (3 carotene pigments found m numerous plants and easily isolable from npe tomatoes and carrots respectively... 

Chromosomes are extremely complex chemicals that are assembled from simple repeating units and contain all the chemical information needed to reproduce animate species. Each living organism has its own complete set of chromosomes, called the genome. 

The information needed to reproduce and support an animate species is given by the order in which the nitrogen bases occur along the DNA or RNA chains (-C-T-T-A-G-, for example). A sequence of three such bases (a codon) provides the fundamental unit of information. 

The genome, through its constituent DNAs, provides all of the codes needed for building a wide range of peptides, proteins, and enzymes, which in turn utilize raw materials (food) to form an animate body and keep it going. These multiple reactions work together as a unit within a water-filled cell. 

Aquatic animals are susceptible to a variety of diseases including those caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. A range of chemicals and vacciaes has been developed for treating the known diseases, although some conditions have resisted all control attempts to date and severe restrictions on the use of therapeutants ia some nations has impaired that abiUty of aquaculturists to control disease outbreaks. The United States is a good example of a nation ia which the variety of treatment chemicals is limited (Table 6). 

The per capita consumption of rice in the United States has doubled since 1960 to approximately 10 kg in 1989. Over the last decade U.S. rice consumption has benefited from a growing trend in U.S. diets away from high fat animal products and toward grain-based foods. Many health groups encourage use of the complex carbohydrates found in grain products such as rice. Also, increases in the Asian and Hispanic segments of the U.S. 

Fatty acids derived from animal and vegetable sources generally contain an even number of carbon atoms siace they are biochemically derived by condensation of two carbon units through acetyl or malonyl coenzyme A. However, odd-numbered and branched fatty acid chains are observed ia small concentrations ia natural triglycerides, particularly mminant animal fats through propionyl and methylmalonyl coenzyme respectively. The glycerol backbone is derived by biospeciftc reduction of dihydroxyacetone. 

In the United States, more than 16.3 x 10 kg of human-inedible raw materials are available each year, and the rendering industry is a valuable asset in diverting these into valuable ingredients for use primarily in animal foods (4). The three largest meat packers are responsible for nearly four-fifths of aU red meat production (5) and enormous amounts of rendered meat meal and animal fat. Three broiler producers account for about 40% of the total broiler production. American Proteins, Inc. (RosweU, Georgia), the world s largest processor of poultry by-products, produces more than 450,000 t of poultry meal, feather meal, and poultry fat each year. It also produces more than 100,000 t of fish meal, fish oil, and fish products each year. Pish meal production worldwide in 1986 was estimated at 6.23 x 10 t, which with the 125 x 10 t of meat and bone meal plus 6.67 x 10 t of feather meal and poultry by-product meal (6) is the primary source of animal proteins used by the pet food industry. 

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