Editorial board

Editors of this journal work on a purely voluntary basis without remuneration. This secures the freedom of taking editorial decisions purely based on scientific quality assurance without any interference with the economic interests an open-access publisher might have.

Managing editor

Steffen Maak

Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Muscle Biology and Growth

Germany

Chief editors

Antke-Elsabe Freifrau von Tiele-Winckler

Universität Rostock
Agrar- und Umweltwissenschaftliche Fakultät (AUF)

Germany

Subject areas

Quantitative genetics

Steffen Maak

Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Muscle Biology and Growth

Germany

Subject areas

Physiology
Product quality

Manfred Mielenz

Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Institute of Nutritional Physiology "Oskar Kellner"

Germany

Subject areas

Nutrition

Christian Nawroth

Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Institute of Behavioural Physiology

Germany

Subject areas

Behaviour
Husbandry

Henry Reyer

Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
Institute of Genome Biology

Germany

Subject areas

Functional genetics
Quantitative genetics

Joachim Weitzel

FBN Dummerstorf
Institute of Reproductive Biology

Germany

Subject areas

Physiology
Reproduction

Advisory board

Jörn Bennewitz

University of Hohenheim

Germany

Gudrun A. Brockmann

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut
Animal Breeding Biology and Molecular Genetics

Germany

Armin M. Scholz

Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
Livestock Center Oberschleissheim
Veterinary Faculty

Germany

Anne Valle Zárate

University of Hohenheim

Germany

Ruqian Zhao

Nanjing Agricultural University

China