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Animal Science and Veterinary
Israel
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
56
Citations
12586
World Ranking
420
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Zehava Uni is a researcher affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their research focuses extensively on Animal Science and Zoology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Microbiology. Key topics addressed in their publications include Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Infant Nutrition and Health, Meat and Animal Product Quality, Animal Genetics and Reproduction, Gut Microbiota and Health, Reproductive Tract Infections Research, and studies related to Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens.

Zehava Uni has published research in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include Poultry Science, Research Square, Frontiers in Physiology, Animal Nutrition, and Animal Microbiome.

Among the recent papers contributed by or involving Zehava Uni are the following:

  • Centennial Review: The chicken yolk sac is a multifunctional organ, 2020, Poultry Science
  • Nutritional stimulation by in-ovo feeding modulates cellular proliferation and differentiation in the small intestinal epithelium of chicks, 2021, Animal Nutrition
  • Incubation temperature affects yolk utilization through changes in expression of yolk sac tissue functional genes, 2020, Poultry Science
  • Supply and demand of creatine and glycogen in broiler chicken embryos, 2023, Frontiers in Physiology
  • It's All About Timing: Early Feeding Promotes Intestinal Maturation by Shifting the Ratios of Specialized Epithelial Cells in Chicks, 2020, Frontiers in Physiology

Zehava Uni frequently collaborates with several coauthors whose joint work appears in multiple publications. Notable frequent coauthors include Jonathan Dayan, Naama Reicher, Tal Melkman-Zehavi, Orna Halevy, and Eric A. Wong.

Best Publications

  • Posthatch development of mucosal function in the broiler small intestine

    Z. Uni;S. Ganot;D. Sklan

  • Methods for early nutrition and their potential

    Z. Uni;R.P. Ferket

  • In ovo feeding improves energy status of late-term chicken embryos

    Z. Uni;P. R. Ferket;E. Tako;O. Kedar

  • Microflora Ecology of the Chicken Intestine Using 16S Ribosomal DNA Primers

    E. Amit-Romach;D. Sklan;Z. Uni

  • Posthatch development of small intestinal function in the poult

    Z Uni;Y Noy;D Sklan

  • Enterocyte Dynamics and Mucosal Development in the Posthatch Chick

    A. Geyra;Z. Uni;D. Sklan

  • Effects of in ovo feeding of carbohydrates and beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate on the development of chicken intestine

    E. Tako;P. R Ferket;Z. Uni

  • Posthatch Changes in Morphology and Function of the Small Intestines in Heavy- and Light-Strain Chicks

    Zehava Uni;Yael Noy;David Sklan

  • Early Posthatch Starvation Decreases Satellite Cell Proliferation and Skeletal Muscle Growth in Chicks

    Orna Halevy;Assaf Geyra;Miriam Barak;Zehava Uni

  • Mucin Dynamics and Microbial Populations in Chicken Small Intestine Are Changed by Dietary Probiotic and Antibiotic Growth Promoter Supplementation

    A. Smirnov;R. Perez;E. Amit-Romach;D. Sklan

  • Morphological, molecular, and functional changes in the chicken small intestine of the late-term embryo

    Z Uni;E Tako;O Gal-Garber;D Sklan

  • Pre- and posthatch development of goblet cells in the broiler small intestine: effect of delayed access to feed.

    Z Uni;A Smirnov;D Sklan

  • Effects of the partial substitution of dietary fish meal by differently processed soybean meals on growth performance, nutrient digestibility and activity of intestinal brush border enzymes in the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

    Emilio Tibaldi;Yaniv Hakim;Zehava Uni;Franceasca Tulli

  • The Effect of Heat Stress on Ovarian Function of Laying Hens

    I. Rozenboim;E. Tako;O. Gal-Garber;J. A. Proudman

  • Mucin Gene Expression and Mucin Content in the Chicken Intestinal Goblet Cells Are Affected by In Ovo Feeding of Carbohydrates

    A. Smirnov;E. Tako;P. R. Ferket;Z. Uni

  • The effect of fasting at different ages on growth and tissue dynamics in the small intestine of the young chick.

    Assaf Geyra;Zehava Uni;David Sklan

  • Effect of in ovo feeding egg white protein, β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate, and carbohydrates on glycogen status and neonatal growth of turkeys

    O. T. Foye;Z. Uni;P. R. Ferket

  • The effect of monochromatic light on broiler growth and development

    I. Rozenboim;I. Biran;Z Uni;B Robinzon

  • Small intestinal development in the young chick: crypt formation and enterocyte proliferation and migration.

    Z Uni;A Geyra;H Ben-Hur;D Sklan

  • Routes of yolk utilisation in the newly‐hatched chick

    Y Noy;Z Uni;D Sklan

  • Important metabolic pathways in poultry embryos prior to hatch

    J.E. De Oliveira;Z. Uni;P.R. Ferket

  • Cell proliferation in chicken intestinal epithelium occurs both in the crypt and along the villus.

    Z. Uni;R. Platin;D. Sklan

  • Changes in chicken intestinal zinc exporter mRNA expression and small intestinal functionality following intra-amniotic zinc-methionine administration.

    Elad Tako;Peter R. Ferket;Zehava Uni

  • Changes in growth and function of chick small intestine epithelium due to early thermal conditioning.

    Z. Uni;O. Gal-Garber;A. Geyra;D. Sklan

  • The effect of in ovo administration of mannan oligosaccharide on small intestine development during the pre- and posthatch periods in chickens

    S. L. Cheled-Shoval;E. Amit-Romach;M. Barbakov;Z. Uni

  • The Effects of In Ovo Feeding Arginine, β-Hydroxy-β-Methyl-Butyrate, and Protein on Jejunal Digestive and Absorptive Activity in Embryonic and Neonatal Turkey Poults

    O. T. Foye;P. R. Ferket;Z. Uni

  • Development of the small intestine in heavy and light strain chicks before and after hatching

    Z Uni;Y Noy;D Sklan

  • Activity of intestinal mucosal brush border membrane enzymes in relation to the feeding habits of three aquaculture fish species

    Sheenan Harpaz;Zehava Uni

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sklan
David Sklan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Peter R. Ferket
Peter R. Ferket North Carolina State University
Avigdor Cahaner
Avigdor Cahaner Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Orna Halevy
Orna Halevy Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Maik Behrens
Maik Behrens Technical University of Munich
Arnon Dag
Arnon Dag Agricultural Research Organization
Wolfgang Meyerhof
Wolfgang Meyerhof Saarland University
Shlomo Yahav
Shlomo Yahav Agricultural Research Organization
J. D. Garlich
J. D. Garlich North Carolina State University
Henry L. Classen
Henry L. Classen University of Saskatchewan

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