Archives Animal Breeding
Archives Animal Breeding
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Managing editor: Steffen Maak
Chief editors: Antke-Elsabe Freifrau von Tiele-Winckler, Franziska Koch, Steffen Maak, Manfred Mielenz, Christian Nawroth, Henry Reyer & Joachim Weitzel
eISSN: 2363-9822

Archives Animal Breeding is an open-access journal publishing original research papers and reviews by international researchers on scientific progress in farm-animal biology.

Recent articles

16 Mar 2026
Effects of on-farm hatching on hatching success and first-week chick performance of local and commercial broiler genotypes
Meryem Güler and Metin Petek
Arch. Anim. Breed., 69, 181–192, https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-181-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-181-2026, 2026
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12 Mar 2026
Combating bovine mastitis: current insights and future directions for a global dairy challenge
Shah Zeb Ahmad, Wenjuan Zhao, Ye Feng, Xubin Lu, Fagang Zhong, Mengli Han, Rifat Ullah Jan, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Zhangping Yang, and Zhi Chen
Arch. Anim. Breed., 69, 157–180, https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-157-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-157-2026, 2026
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09 Mar 2026
Genetic diversity and population structure of Balkan goat populations in Serbia based on microsatellite and mtDNA markers
Nina Dominiković, Minja Zorc, Marko Ristanić, Vladimir Dimitrijević, Jovan Blagojević, Uroš Glavinić, and Zoran Stanimirović
Arch. Anim. Breed., 69, 143–155, https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-143-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-143-2026, 2026
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20 Feb 2026
Evaluation of genetic effects on the fatty acid composition of intramuscular fat and backfat of the endangered Angler Saddleback pig
Anna Olschewsky, Andreas Kleinlein, Dirk Hinrichs, Stefanie Klingel, Georg Thaller, Angela Sünder, and Daniel Mörlein
Arch. Anim. Breed., 69, 129–142, https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-129-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-129-2026, 2026
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17 Feb 2026
Effect of human interference with maternal behaviour on development and blood biochemical parameters in the first 35 d of calves' life
Marta Iwaszkiewicz, Aurelia Radzik-Rant, Katarzyna Czyż, Anna Wyrostek, and Witold Rant
Arch. Anim. Breed., 69, 117–127, https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-117-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-69-117-2026, 2026
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13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

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05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

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