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Animal Science and Veterinary
France
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
54
Citations
13374
World Ranking
470
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in France Leader Award

Overview

Anne Ferlay is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has a strong emphasis on subfields such as agronomy and crop science, genetics, animal science and zoology, ecology, and molecular biology.

The scope of their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Agriculture sustainability and environmental impact
  • Reproductive physiology in livestock
  • Effects of environmental stressors on livestock
  • Animal nutrition and physiology
  • Fatty acid research and health

Anne Ferlay has contributed to a number of publications with various coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Mauro Coppa, Bruno Martin, Matthieu Bouchon, Benoît Graulet, and Céline Delbès.

The scientist has published in multiple venues, with recurring appearances in:

  • animal
  • Journal of Dairy Science
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Livestock Science
  • Animal Feed Science and Technology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Anne Ferlay illustrate a focus on livestock nutrition, milk composition, and methane emission from dairy cows. Notable examples include:

  • "Repeatability and ranking of long-term enteric methane emissions measurement on dairy cows across diets and time using GreenFeed system in farm-conditions" (2020, Methods)
  • "Comparison of the Potential Abilities of Three Spectroscopy Methods: Near-Infrared, Mid-Infrared, and Molecular Fluorescence, to Predict Carotenoid, Vitamin and Fatty Acid Contents in Cow Milk" (2020, Foods)
  • "Relative hierarchy of farming practices affecting the fatty acid composition of permanent grasslands and of the derived bulk milk" (2020, Animal Feed Science and Technology)
  • "Effect of linseed, sunflower, or fish oil added to hay-, or corn silage-based diets on milk fat yield and trans-C18:1 and conjugated linoleic fatty acid content in bovine milk fat" (2020, Livestock Science)
  • "Milk metabolome reveals variations on enteric methane emissions from dairy cows fed a specific inhibitor of the methanogenesis pathway" (2021, Journal of Dairy Science)

Best Publications

  • Diet, rumen biohydrogenation and nutritional quality of cow and goat milk fat

    Yves Chilliard;Frédéric Glasser;Anne Ferlay;Laurence Bernard

  • A review of nutritional and physiological factors affecting goat milk lipid synthesis and lipolysis.

    Y. Chilliard;A. Ferlay;J. Rouel;G. Lamberet

  • Ruminant milk fat plasticity: nutritional control of saturated, polyunsaturated, trans and conjugated fatty acids

    Yves Chilliard;Anne Ferlay;Rosemary M. Mansbridge;Michel Doreau

  • Effect of different types of forages, animal fat or marine oils in cow’s diet on milk fat secretion and composition, especially conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids

    Yves Chilliard;Anne Ferlay;Michel Doreau

  • Dietary lipids and forages interactions on cow and goat milk fatty acid composition and sensory properties

    Yves Chilliard;Anne Ferlay

  • Digestion and utilisation of fatty acids by ruminants

    M. Doreau;A. Ferlay

  • Biohydrogenation, duodenal flow, and intestinal digestibility of trans fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acids in response to dietary forage:concentrate ratio and linseed oil in dairy cows.

    J.J. Loor;K. Ueda;A. Ferlay;Y. Chilliard

  • Relationship among trans and conjugated fatty acids and bovine milk fat yield due to dietary concentrate and linseed oil.

    Juan J Loor;A. Ferlay;A. Ollier;M. Doreau

  • Oilseed Lipid Supplements and Fatty Acid Composition of Cow Milk: A Meta-Analysis

    F. Glasser;A. Ferlay;Y. Chilliard

  • Adipose tissue metabolism and its role in adaptations to undernutrition in ruminants.

    Yves Chilliard;Anne Ferlay;Yannick Faulconnier;Muriel Bonnet

  • Plasma leptin concentration in adult cattle: effects of breed, adiposity, feeding level, and meal intake.

    C Delavaud;A Ferlay;Y Faulconnier;F Bocquier

  • Effect of linseed oil supplementation on ruminal digestion in dairy cows fed diets with different forage:concentrate ratios.

    K. Ueda;A. Ferlay;J. Chabrot;Juan J Loor

  • Mammary lipid metabolism and milk fatty acid secretion in alpine goats fed vegetable lipids.

    L. Bernard;J. Rouel;C. Leroux;A. Ferlay

  • Influence of Grass-Based Diets on Milk Fatty Acid Composition and Milk Lipolytic System in Tarentaise and Montbéliarde Cow Breeds

    A. Ferlay;B. Martin;Ph. Pradel;J.B. Coulon

  • Effect of dietary lipids on nitrogen metabolism in the rumen: a review

    M. Doreau;A. Ferlay

  • EXAMINATION OF THE PERSISTENCY OF MILK FATTY ACID COMPOSITION RESPONSES TO PLANT OILS IN COWS GIVEN DIFFERENT BASAL DIETS, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON TRANS-C18:1 FATTY ACIDS AND ISOMERS OF CONJUGATED LINOLEIC ACID

    A Roy;A Ferlay;Kevin Shingfield;Y Chilliard

  • Production of trans and conjugated fatty acids in dairy ruminants and their putative effects on human health: A review.

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  • Long-chain fatty acid metabolism in dairy cows: a meta-analysis of milk fatty acid yield in relation to duodenal flows and de novo synthesis

    Frederic Glasser;Anne Ferlay;Michel Doreau;Philippe Schmidely

  • High-Concentrate Diets and Polyunsaturated Oils Alter Trans and Conjugated Isomers in Bovine Rumen, Blood, and Milk

    J.J. Loor;A. Ferlay;A. Ollier;K. Ueda

  • Effect of plant oils in the diet on performance and milk fatty acid composition in goats fed diets based on grass hay or maize silage.

    Laurence Bernard;Kevin J. Shingfield;Jacques Rouel;Anne Ferlay

  • Intestinal flow and digestibility of trans fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) in dairy cows fed a high-concentrate diet supplemented with fish oil, linseed oil, or sunflower oil

    Juan J Loor;K. Ueda;A. Ferlay;Y. Chilliard

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Chilliard
Yves Chilliard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Bruno Martin
Bruno Martin INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Michel Doreau
Michel Doreau INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Juan J. Loor
Juan J. Loor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laurence Bernard
Laurence Bernard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Cécile Martin
Cécile Martin INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Giorgio Borreani
Giorgio Borreani University of Turin
Donato Andueza
Donato Andueza INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Dominique Bauchart
Dominique Bauchart INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Kevin J. Shingfield
Kevin J. Shingfield Aberystwyth University

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