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E. Le Bihan-Duval 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 a significant portion devoted to animal science and zoology. The scientist's work spans molecular biology, genetics, small animals, and aquatic science as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their work include animal nutrition and physiology, livestock and poultry management, and meat and animal product quality. Additional research interests encompass aquaculture nutrition and growth, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, and animal behavior and welfare studies.

Le Bihan-Duval has contributed to multiple publications in recognized scientific journals. Frequent venues for their work include Poultry Science, Animal - Science Proceedings, and Frontiers in Physiology. Other publication venues include INRAE Productions Animales and HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Le Bihan-Duval include:

  • "Molecular Phenotyping of White Striping and Wooden Breast Myopathies in Chicken" (2020, Frontiers in Physiology)
  • "Short cold exposures during incubation and postnatal cold temperature affect performance, breast meat quality, and welfare parameters in broiler chickens" (2020, Poultry Science)
  • "A Divergent Selection on Breast Meat Ultimate pH, a Key Factor for Chicken Meat Quality, is Associated With Different Circulating Lipid Profiles" (2022, Frontiers in Physiology)
  • "Revealing Pathways Associated with Feed Efficiency and Meat Quality Traits in Slow-Growing Chickens" (2021, Animals)
  • "The kinetics of growth, feed intake, and feed efficiency reveal a good capacity of adaptation of slow and rapid growing broilers to alternative diets" (2021, Poultry Science)

Le Bihan-Duval has collaborated with multiple researchers, including Cécile Berri, Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau, Sonia Métayer-Coustard, Eva Pampouille, and Angélique Petit. These frequent co-authors indicate a collaborative research network within the field of animal and poultry science.

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, with a noted title published by Frontiers Media: "Avian Muscle Development and Growth Mechanisms: Association with Muscle Myopathies and Meat Quality" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Effect of Selection for Improved Body Composition on Muscle and Meat Characteristics of Broilers from Experimental and Commercial Lines

    Cécile Berri;Nathaële Wacrenier;N. Millet;E. Le Bihan-Duval

  • Broiler meat quality: effect of selection for increased carcass quality and estimates of genetic parameters

    E Le Bihan-Duval;N Millet;H Remignon

  • Chicken meat quality: genetic variability and relationship with growth and muscle characteristics

    Elisabeth Le Bihan-Duval;Martine Debut;Cécile M Berri;Nadine Sellier

  • Consequence of muscle hypertrophy on characteristics of Pectoralis major muscle and breast meat quality of broiler chickens

    C. Berri;E. Le Bihan-Duval;M. Debut;V. Santé-Lhoutellier

  • Variation of chicken technological meat quality in relation to genotype and preslaughter stress conditions

    M Debut;C Berri;E Baeza;N Sellier

  • Pre-slaughter conditions, animal stress and welfare: current status and possible future research

    E. M. C. Terlouw;C. Arnould;B. Auperin;C. Berri

  • Qualitative attributes and consumer perception of organic and free-range poultry meat

    C. Castellini;C. Berri;E. Le Bihan-Duval;G. Martino

  • Variations in chicken breast meat quality: implications of struggle and muscle glycogen content at death

    C Berri;M Debut;V Santé-Lhoutellier;C Arnould

  • Estimation of the Genetic Parameters of Meat Characteristics and of Their Genetic Correlations with Growth and Body Composition in an Experimental Broiler Line

    E. Le Bihan-Duval;C. Berri;E. Baeza;N. Millet

  • Genetic analysis of a selection experiment on increased body weight and breast muscle weight as well as on limited abdominal fat weight

    E. Le Bihan-Duval;S. Mignon-Grasteau;N. Millet;C. Beaumont

  • Behavioural and physiological responses of three chicken breeds to pre-slaughter shackling and acute heat stress

    M Debut;C Berri;C Arnould;D Guemené

  • Muscle Growth and Meat Quality

    M.J. Duclos;C. Berri;E. Le Bihan-Duval

  • Digestive tract measurements and histological adaptation in broiler lines divergently selected for digestive efficiency

    H. de Verdal;S. Mignon-Grasteau;C. Jeulin;E. Le Bihan-Duval

  • Muscle development, insulin-like growth factor-I and myostatin mRNA levels in chickens selected for increased breast muscle yield.

    A Guernec;C Berri;B Chevalier;N Wacrenier-Cere

  • QTL for several metabolic traits map to loci controlling growth and body composition in an F2 intercross between high- and low-growth chicken lines.

    Javad Nadaf;Frédérique Pitel;Hélène Gilbert;Michel J. Duclos

  • Recent advances in omic technologies for meat quality management.

    B. Picard;B. Lebret;B. Lebret;I. Cassar-Malek;L. Liaubet

  • Influence of increasing slaughter age of chickens on meat quality, welfare, and technical and economic results.

    E. Baéza;C. Arnould;M. Jlali;P. Chartrin

  • Selecting broiler chickens for ultimate pH of breast muscle: analysis of divergent selection experiment and phenotypic consequences on meat quality, growth, and body composition traits.

    N. Alnahhas;C. Berri;M. Boulay;E. Baéza

  • Transcriptional analysis of abdominal fat in genetically fat and lean chickens reveals adipokines, lipogenic genes and a link between hemostasis and leanness

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  • Increased responsiveness to dietary lysine deficiency of pectoralis major muscle protein turnover in broilers selected on breast development.

    S Tesseraud;S Temim;E Le Bihan-Duval;A M Chagneau

  • Diet-Induced Thermogenesis and Glucose Oxidation in Broiler Chickens: Influence of Genotype and Diet Composition

    Quirine Swennen;G P J Janssens;A Collin;E Le Bihan-Duval

  • Response of chick lines selected on carcass quality to dietary lysine supply: live performance and muscle development

    S Tesseraud;E Le Bihan-Duval;R Peresson;J Michel

  • A Simulation Study of Selection Methods to Improve Mastitis Resistance of Dairy Cows

    J.J. Colleau;E. Le Bihan-Duval

  • Genetic parameters of white striping in relation to body weight, carcass composition, and meat quality traits in two broiler lines divergently selected for the ultimate pH of the pectoralis major muscle

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  • Chicken lines divergent for low or high abdominal fat deposition: a relevant model to study the regulation of energy metabolism

    E. Baéza;E. Le Bihan-Duval

  • Genetic parameters of survival to the different stages of embryonic death in laying hens

    C Beaumont;N Millet;E Le Bihan-Duval;A Kipi

  • Genetic parameters of the twisted legs syndrome in broiler chickens

    E Le Bihan-Duval;C Beaumont;JJ Colleau

  • Reducing the environmental impact of poultry breeding by genetic selection.

    H. de Verdal;S. Mignon-Grasteau;D. Bastianelli;N. Même

  • Does the chicken genotype ‘Géline de Touraine’ have specific carcass and meat characteristics?

    E. Baéza;P. Chartrin;E. Le Bihan-Duval;M. Lessire

Frequent Co-Authors

Cécile Berri
Cécile Berri François Rabelais University
Catherine Beaumont
Catherine Beaumont INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Elisabeth Baeza
Elisabeth Baeza INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Cécile Arnould
Cécile Arnould Oniris - École nationale vétérinaire, agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation, Nantes-Atlantique
Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau
Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Frédérique Pitel
Frédérique Pitel INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Larry A. Cogburn
Larry A. Cogburn University of Delaware
Anne Collin
Anne Collin INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Sophie Tesseraud
Sophie Tesseraud INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Hélène Gilbert
Hélène Gilbert Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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