Selenocysteine: The functional selenium

Commercial poultry production is associated with various stressors that can lead to a decrease of productive and reproductive performance in growing chickens, parent birds and commercial layers. Selenium plays a key role in protecting the animals from the negative effects of stress. In general, there are 4 major types of stress in the poultry industry: technological, environmental, nutritional and internal. A growing body of evidence indicates that most cellular-level stressors in poultry produ