Contents of JDR Volume 89 issue 1, February 2022

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Editorial: Breast is best but also, sadly, least
Christopher H Knight
UK
A review of inbreeding depression in dairy cattle: current status, emerging control strategies, and future prospects
Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Reinoso, Pedro M. Aponte and Manuel García-Herreros
Ecuador, Chile and Portugal
The need for national livestock surveillance in Pakistan
Muhammad Aamir Shahzad
Pakistan
A meta-analysis of genetic parameter estimates for milk and serum minerals in dairy cows
Navid Ghavi Hossein-Zadeh
Iran
Blood calcium dynamics in cows receiving an aqueous calcium suspension for voluntary consumption or a calcium bolus following parturition
Juliette N Wilms, Jean-Baptiste Daniel, Javier Martín-Tereso, Arie Klop, Roselinde Goselink, Yanming Han and Sandra van Kuijk
The Netherlands
Comparison of the feeding behaviour of primiparous and multiparous Jersey and Holstein cows kept under equal conditions throughout lactation
Sandra Gündel, Lene Munksgaard, Christian Looft and Leslie Foldager
Germany and Denmark
Prepartum measurement of serum biomarkers reflecting osteoclastic and osteoblastic bone metabolism for predicting the risk of milk fever in dairy cows
Norio Yamagishi and Chiho Kawashima
Japan
Perception of animal welfare and its certification system by Brazilian consumers and dairy farmers
Vinicius Cardoso Comin, Helena Fagundes Karsburg, Bruna Maria Salotti de Souza, Henrique Meiroz de Souza Almeida, Ligia Maria Neira and Gabriel Augusto Marques Rossi
Brazil
Weighting the relative importance of behaviors affecting gait score
Barbara Jones, I Ching Tsai, Yu-Mei Chang and Jeffrey Bewley
USA and UK
Relationship between the concentration of anti-Müllerian hormone and antral follicle count in pasture-managed Holstein cows in the high tropics
Luis Ayala Guanga, Susana Astiz, Jorge Dutan Sanango, Jorge Xavier Samaniego, Rodrigo Xavier López Cabrera, Fernando Perea, Hugo J. Hernandez-Fonseca and José Luis Pesántez Pacheco
Ecuador, Spain and Venezuela
Effects of short and long milking intervals on milking characteristics and changes of milk constituents during the course of milking in crossbred Istrian x Awassi x East-Friesian ewes
Alen Dzidic, Jordan Kuehnl, Maja Simic and Rupert M. Bruckmaier
Croatia, USA and Switzerland
Milkability of Holstein cows is significantly affected by the incidence of clinical mastitis for weeks after diagnosis
Matúš Gašparík, Luděk Stádník, Jaromír Ducháček and Marek Vrhel
Czech Republic
The prevalence, molecular characterization and antimicrobial resistance profiling of Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from clinical mastitis cases on large dairy farms in China
Kai Liu, Limei Zhang, Xiaolong Gu Gang Liu, Yang Liu, Peng Chen, Zhaoju Deng, Jian Gao, Bo Han and Weijie Qu
China
Protection of bovine mammary epithelial cells by a nanoemulsiuon of the medicinal herb Achyroline satureioides (Lam.) DC. and its capacity of permeation through mammary epithelium
Gabriela T. Pinheiro Machado, Maria B. Veleirinho, Roberto G. Ferreira, Carine Zuglianello, Elenara Lemos-Senna and Shirley Kuhnen
Brazil
​​Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pseudomonas putida from refrigerated raw milk: genetic diversity and lipoproteolytic activity
Rosana De Longhi, Selma de Souza Correia, Samera Rafaela Bruzaroski, Regina Celia Poli-Frederico, Rafael Fagnani and Elsa Helena Walter de Santana
Brazil
Colloidal stability of milk: reinterpretation of alcohol test results by digital microscopy
Cláudio Humberto Ferreira da Costa, Igor Lima de Paula, Paulo Henrique Fonseca da Silva, Ítalo Tuler Perrone, Rodrigo Stephani and Luiz Fernando Cappa de Oliveira
Brazil
Influence of processing and packaging conditions on probiotic survivability rate, physico-chemical and sensory characteristics of low calorie synbiotic milk beverage
Prittam Chand, M Dharani Kumar, Ashish Kumar Singh, Gaurav Kr Deshwal, Priyanka Singh Rao and Heena Sharma
India
Occurrence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in “coalho” cheese produced in Brazil
Felipe RM de Aguiar, Larissa Q Rocha, Morgana MO Barboza, Tiago L Sampaio, Nádia AP Nogueira and Ramon RPPB de Menezes
Brazil
Effects of the thermal denaturation degree of a whey protein isolate on the strength of acid milk gels and the dissociation of κ-casein
Daiki Oka, Wataru Ono, Shojiro Tamaki, Tomohiro Noguchi and Katsumi Takano
Japan
Rheological and microstructural characterisation of heat-induced whey protein isolate gels affected by the addition of caseinomacropeptide
Paula V. Guedes, Rilton A. de Freitas, Célia R.C. Franco and Lys M. B. Cândido
Brazil
Professor Sir James Armour: Obituary
Christpher H Knight
​UK