Natasha Whenham
AmeriCorps VISTA
7 Papers
37 Citations
Natasha Whenham is an academic researcher from AmeriCorps VISTA. The author has contributed to research in topics: Egg white & Zebra finch. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications. Previous affiliations of Natasha Whenham include University of Edinburgh & The Roslin Institute.
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Papers
Review on docosahexaenoic acid in poultry and swine nutrition: Consequence of enriched animal products on performance and health characteristics.
TL;DR: Dietary enrichment of animal meat and eggs with n-3 PUFA with DHA-rich ingredients to mono-gastric can enrich human diets as well as providing additional benefits to the animal, according to these findings.
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Ovodefensins, an Oviduct Specific Antimicrobial Gene Family Have Evolved in Birds and Reptiles to Protect the Egg by Both Sequence and Intra Six Cysteine Sequence Motif Spacing
Natasha Whenham,Tian Chee Lu,Maisarah Mohamad Maidin,Peter W.F. Wilson,Maureen M. Bain,M. Lynn Stevenson,Mark P. Stevens,Michael R. Bedford,Ian C. Dunn +8 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis that ovodefensins evolved to protect the egg, but they are not necessarily restricted to the egg white is supported, and divergent motif structure and sequence present an interesting area of research for antimicrobial peptide design and understanding protection of the cleidoic egg.
Cuticle deposition improves the biosecurity of eggs through the laying cycle and can be measured on hatching eggs without compromising embryonic development
Maureen M. Bain,Jiangxia Zheng,Melissa Zigler,Natasha Whenham,Fiona Quinlan-Pluck,Anita C. Jones,Mark Roberts,Wiebke Icken,Victor E Olori,Ian C. Dunn +9 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that cuticle deposition is important in preventing bacterial penetration of eggs in genetically divergent breeds of chicken and that the measurement can be practically incorporated into breeding programs.
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A bacteriophage cocktail delivered in feed significantly reduced Salmonella colonization in challenged broiler chickens
Anisha M. Thanki,Steven P.T. Hooton,Natasha Whenham,Michael G. Salter,Michael R. Bedford,H. V. Masey O’Neill,Martha R. J. Clokie +6 more
TL;DR: In this article , a study was conducted to determine if a phage cocktail delivered in feed is capable of reducing Salmonella colonization in experimentally challenged chickens and to determine the optimal phage dose.
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Comparative biology and expression of TENP, an egg protein related to the bacterial permeability-increasing family of proteins.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors confirmed quantitatively that the expression of TENP is largely confined to the tubular glands of the magnum of the oviduct, where egg white synthesis occurs, with around 10,000 times more expression than in the embryo where it was first identified.
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