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Reports of the Project 'Models to Estimate
Amino Acid Requirements of Poultry'
The remaining chapters in this topic present
the results of research conducted by post-
graduate students of the Faculdade de Ciên-
cias Agrárias e Veterinárias - Universidade
Estadual Paulista, Jaboticabal, São Paulo,
Brazil. The project 'Models to estimate amino
acid requirements of poultry' conducted at
this university (supported by Fundação de
Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo,
Brazil) over a period of
5
years resulted in
five Masters and six PhD theses, with five
undergraduate and two post-doctoral students
also assisting with the project. The research
was directed towards the development of
a simulation model, the AVINESP Model,
designed to simulate growth and to estimate
energy and amino acids requirements of broil-
ers and laying pullets. The following eight
papers were presented by five of the post-
graduate students supervised by Professor
Nilva Kazue Sakomura, during the Inter-
national Symposium in Modeling in Pig and
Poultry Production held in Jaboticabal, São
Paulo, Brazil, from
18
to
20
June, 2013.
