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Shevtsova, T., Maalihan, R. D., Demchuk, Z., Byrd, C. J., Caldona, E. B., Voronov, A. (2025) Rheological study of biobased structured emulsions for pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications. Polymer. 339:129107. doi:10.1016/j.polymer.2025.129107.
Sommer, D. M., Young, J. M., Sun, X., Lopez-Martinez, G., Byrd. C. J.* (2024) Does social hierarchy negatively affect group-housed sow gestation and reproductive performance? Livestock Science. 290: 105591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2024.105591.
Kasakamu, M.L., Young, J.M., Samuel, R.S., Wagner, S.A., Byrd, C.J.* (2024) The effect of ramped nursery housing on pig behavior during loading and unloading at marketing. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 279:106397. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106397.
Calderón-Amor, J., Zuleta, B., Ceballos, M.C., Cartes, D., Byrd, C.J., Lecorps, B., Palomo, R., Guzmán-Pino, S., Siel, D., Luna, D. (2024) Affective Implications of Human–Animal Relationship on Pig Welfare: Integrating Non-Linear Heart Rate Variability Measures. Animals.14:2217. doi: 10.3390/ani14152217.
Luna, D., Calderón-Amor, J., González, C., Byrd, C., Palomo, R., Huenul, E., Figueroa, J. (2024) The protective effect of social support: can humans reassure pigs during stressful challenges by using social learning? Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 273:106221 doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106221
Shelver, W. L., McGarvey, A. M., Holthusen, J. E., Young, J. M., Byrd, C. J., Smith, D. J. (2024) Comparison of immunoassay and LC-tandem mass spectrometry analyses of ractopamine in hog oral fluid. Food Additives and Contaminants Part A. 41:2, 162-174, doi:10.1080/19440049.2023.2300738
Sommer, D. M., Young, J. M., Sun, X., Lopez-Martinez, G., Byrd. C. J.* (2023) Are infrared thermography, feeding behavior, and heart rate variability measures capable of characterizing group-housed sow social hierarchies? Journal of Animal Science skad143. doi:10.1093/jas/skad143
Byrd, C. J.*, Young, J.M. (2023) Evaluating the effect of a mild cycling heating period on leukocyte coping capacity in growing pigs. Frontiers in Animal Science 4. doi:10.3389/fanim.2023.1148218
Byrd, C. J.*, Young, J. M., Sommer, D. M.* (2022) Cross-fostering alters the post-weaning behavioral stress response in a sex-specific manner. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 249: 105593. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105593
Byrd, C. J.*, McConn, B. R., Gaskill, B. N., Schinckel, A. P., Green-Miller, A. R., Lay, D. C., Johnson, J.S. (2022) Characterizing the effect of incrementally increasing dry bulb temperature on linear and nonlinear measures of heart rate variability in non-pregnant, mid-gestation, and late-gestation sows. Journal of Animal Science skac004. doi:10.1093/jas/skac004
Shelver, W., Chakrabarty, S., Young, J. M., Byrd, C. J., Smith, D. J. (2021) Evaluation of rapid and standard tandem mass spectrometric methods to analyze veterinary drugs and their metabolites in hog oral fluid and cattle urine. Food Additives and Contaminants. Part A doi:10.1080/19440049.2021.2006801
Maskal, J. M., Brito, L. F., Duttlinger, A. W., Kpodo, K. R., McConn, B. R. Byrd., C. J., Richert, B. T., Marchant-Forde, J. N., Lay, D. C., Perry, S. D., Lucy, M. C., Safranski, T. J., Johnson, J. S. (2021) Characterizing the postnatal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response of in utero heat stressed pigs at 10 and 15 weeks of age. Scientific Reports. 11(1):22527. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-01889-w
Luna, D., González, C., Byrd, C. J., Palomo, R., Huenul, E., Figueroa, J. (2021) The effect of demonstrator social rank on the attentiveness and motivation of pigs to positively interact with their human caretakers. Animals 11(7): 2140. doi:10.3390/ani11072140
Wagner, S. A., Fajt, V. T., Lo C. P., Byrd, C. J. (2021) Pharmacokinetics of oral firocoxib in un-weaned calves. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 44(5):793-798. doi:10.1111/jvp.12971
Luna, D., González, C.; Byrd, C. J., Palomo, R., Huenul, E., Figueroa, J. (2021) Do Domestic Pigs Acquire a Positive Perception of Humans through Observational Social Learning? Animals 11(1): 127. doi:10.3390/ani11010127
Byrd, C. J.*, Radcliffe, J. S., Craig, B. A., Eicher, S. D., Lay Jr, D. C. (2020) Measuring piglet castration pain using linear and nonlinear measures of heart rate variability. Animal Welfare 29: 257-269. doi:10.7120/09627286.29.3.257
