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Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli is affiliated with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily spans multiple fields, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broader fields, their work delves into subfields such as Molecular Biology, Animal Science and Zoology, Food Science, Small Animals, and Infectious Diseases.

The major topics addressed in their research include gut microbiota and health, animal nutrition and physiology, animal behavior and welfare studies, probiotics and fermented foods, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, and adipose tissue and metabolism.

Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli has contributed to several scientific venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Animal - science proceedings
  • Microorganisms

Frequent collaborators in their work are:

  • Julia C. Vötterl
  • Simone Koger
  • Frederike Lerch
  • Suchitra Sharma
  • Fitra Yosi

Significant publications authored or co-authored by Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli include:

  • Impact of Intestinal Microbiota on Growth and Feed Efficiency in Pigs: A Review, 2020, Microorganisms
  • Dietary Phytase and Lactic Acid-Treated Cereal Grains Differently Affected Calcium and Phosphorus Homeostasis from Intestinal Uptake to Systemic Metabolism in a Pig Model, 2020, Nutrients
  • Short-, medium-, and long-chain fatty acid profiles and signaling is responsive to dietary phytase and lactic acid treatment of cereals along the gastrointestinal tract of growing pigs, 2021, Journal of Animal Science
  • A multicomponent mycotoxin deactivator modifies the response of the jejunal mucosal and cecal bacterial community to deoxynivalenol contaminated feed and oral lipopolysaccharide challenge in chickens1, 2020, Journal of Animal Science
  • Dietary Probiotics Modulate Gut Barrier and Immune-Related Gene Expression and Histomorphology in Broiler Chickens under Non- and Pathogen-Challenged Conditions: A Meta-Analysis, 2023, Animals

Best Publications

  • Exploring a possible link between the intestinal microbiota and feed efficiency in pigs

    Ursula M. McCormack;Ursula M. McCormack;Tânia Curião;Stefan G. Buzoianu;Maria L. Prieto

  • Interplay between rumen digestive disorders and diet-induced inflammation in dairy cattle

    Q. Zebeli;B.U. Metzler-Zebeli

  • Nonstarch Polysaccharides Modulate Bacterial Microbiota, Pathways for Butyrate Production, and Abundance of Pathogenic Escherichia coli in the Pig Gastrointestinal Tract†

    Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Seema Hooda;Robert Pieper;Ruurd T. Zijlstra

  • Dietary calcium phosphate content and oat β‐glucan influence gastrointestinal microbiota, butyrate‐producing bacteria and butyrate fermentation in weaned pigs

    Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Ruurd T. Zijlstra;Ruurd T. Zijlstra;Rainer Mosenthin;Rainer Mosenthin;Michael G. Gänzle

  • Starch with High Amylose Content and Low In Vitro Digestibility Increases Intestinal Nutrient Flow and Microbial Fermentation and Selectively Promotes Bifidobacteria in Pigs

    Prajwal R. Regmi;Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Michael G. Gänzle;Theo A. T. G. van Kempen

  • Intestinal microbiota profiles associated with low and high residual feed intake in chickens across two geographical locations.

    Sina-Catherine Siegerstetter;Stephan Schmitz-Esser;Elizabeth Magowan;Stefanie Urimare Wetzels

  • Impact of Intestinal Microbiota on Growth and Feed Efficiency in Pigs: A Review

    Gillian E. Gardiner;Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Peadar G. Lawlor

  • Nutrition, rumen health and inflammation in the transition period and their role on overall health and fertility in dairy cows.

    Q. Zebeli;K. Ghareeb;E. Humer;B.U. Metzler-Zebeli

  • Mucosa-associated bacterial microbiome of the gastrointestinal tract of weaned pigs and dynamics linked to dietary calcium-phosphorus.

    Evelyne Mann;Stephan Schmitz-Esser;Qendrim Zebeli;Martin Wagner

  • Grain-rich diets differently alter ruminal and colonic abundance of microbial populations and lipopolysaccharide in goats.

    Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Stephan Schmitz-Esser;Fenja Klevenhusen;Leopold Podstatzky-Lichtenstein

  • Porcine feed efficiency-associated intestinal microbiota and physiological traits: finding consistent cross-locational biomarkers for residual feed intake

    Ursula M. McCormack;Ursula M. McCormack;Tânia Curião;Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Elizabeth Magowan

  • Effects of viscosity and fermentability of dietary fibre on nutrient digestibility and digesta characteristics in ileal-cannulated grower pigs

    Seema Hooda;Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Thavaratnam Vasanthan;Ruurd T. Zijlstra

  • Impact of osmoregulatory and methyl donor functions of betaine on intestinal health and performance in poultry.

    B.U. Metzler-Zebeli;M. Eklund;R. Mosenthin

  • Oat β-Glucan and Dietary Calcium and Phosphorus Differentially Modify Intestinal Expression of Proinflammatory Cytokines and Monocarboxylate Transporter 1 and Cecal Morphology in Weaned Pigs

    Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Michael G. Gänzle;Rainer Mosenthin;Rainer Mosenthin;Ruurd T. Zijlstra

  • Fecal Microbiota Transplant From Highly Feed Efficient Donors Affects Cecal Physiology and Microbiota in Low- and High-Feed Efficient Chickens.

    Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Sina-Catherine Siegerstetter;Elizabeth Magowan;Peadar G. Lawlor

  • Dietary Deoxynivalenol Contamination and Oral Lipopolysaccharide Challenge Alters the Cecal Microbiota of Broiler Chickens

    Annegret Lucke;Josef Böhm;Qendrim Zebeli;Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli

  • Epithelial response to high-grain diets involves alteration in nutrient transporters and Na+/K+-ATPase mRNA expression in rumen and colon of goats.

    B U Metzler-Zebeli;M Hollmann;S Sabitzer;L Podstatzky-Lichtenstein

  • Ileal microbiota of growing pigs fed different dietary calcium phosphate levels and phytase content and subjected to ileal pectin infusion.

    B. U. Metzler-Zebeli;W. Vahjen;T. Baumgärtel;M. Rodehutscord

  • Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Gestating Sows and Neonatal Offspring Alters Lifetime Intestinal Microbiota and Growth in Offspring

    Ursula M. McCormack;Ursula M. McCormack;Tânia Curião;Toby J Wilkinson;Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli

  • Changing Dietary Calcium-Phosphorus Level and Cereal Source Selectively Alters Abundance of Bacteria and Metabolites in the Upper Gastrointestinal Tracts of Weaned Pigs

    Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Evelyne Mann;Stephan Schmitz-Esser;Martin Wagner

  • Adaptation of the Cecal Bacterial Microbiome of Growing Pigs in Response to Resistant Starch Type 4

    Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Stephan Schmitz-Esser;Evelyne Mann;Dietmar Grüll

  • Feed Restriction Modifies Intestinal Microbiota-Host Mucosal Networking in Chickens Divergent in Residual Feed Intake.

    Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli;Sina-Catherine Siegerstetter;Elizabeth Magowan;Peadar G. Lawlor

  • Meta-analysis reveals threshold level of rapidly fermentable dietary concentrate that triggers systemic inflammation in cattle.

    Q. Zebeli;B.U. Metzler-Zebeli;B.N. Ametaj

Frequent Co-Authors

Qendrim Zebeli
Qendrim Zebeli University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Fenja Klevenhusen
Fenja Klevenhusen Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Martin Wagner
Martin Wagner University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Peadar G. Lawlor
Peadar G. Lawlor Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Ruurd T. Zijlstra
Ruurd T. Zijlstra University of Alberta
Michael G. Gänzle
Michael G. Gänzle University of Alberta
Niamh O'Connell
Niamh O'Connell Queen's University Belfast
Josef Böhm
Josef Böhm University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Rainer Mosenthin
Rainer Mosenthin University of Hohenheim
Paul D. Cotter
Paul D. Cotter University College Cork

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