I’m Maris Schneider, and I’m on a mission to better understand the importance of nutrition to the skeletal system. With a passion for science, a love of puzzles, and an endless supply of coffee, I’ll be looking for new ways to interpret malnutrition and its impacts on skeletons across the ages. For now, I’m a PhD student, working away at her research. Please enjoy getting to know me and my research so far!
We examined how selective breeding for traits like fast growth or high egg production in chickens impacts embryonic skeletal development. While initial differences in skeletal mineralization were observed between broiler and layer strains, both strains reached similar levels of prenatal skeletal maturity by the end of incubation, suggesting robust regulation of skeletal development across divergent breeds.
