Protein metabolism gene expression in poultry fed mealworm meal

Over the last decade the scarcity of protein sources in the modern world lead to increased research studies on the use of insect meal in animal (De Marco et al. 2015; Biasato et al. 2016) and human nutrition (Payne et al. 2016, Stoops et al. 2016).The aim of this study was to assess the response of intestinal mucosa in poultry to dietary Tenebrio molitor (TM) meal supplementation.