Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences, ISSN 1806-2636 (print) and ISSN 1807-8672 (on-line) is published by the Maringá State University, in modality the continuous publication. The journal publishes original articles in all areas of Animal Science and Zootechny, including genetics and genetic improvement, nutrition and digestion, physiology and endocrinology, reproduction and lactation, growth, etiology and animal well-being, environment and installations, food evaluation and animal production.

Aims
To establish the public inscription of knowledge and its preservation; To publish results of research comprising ideas and new scientific suggestions; To publicize worldwide information and knowledge produced by the scientific community; To speech the process of scientific communication in Animal Sciences. 

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