About the Authors

Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau, Irène Gabriel

sandrine.grasteau@tours.inra.fr

Affiliation UR83 Recherches Avicoles, INRA, Nouzilly, France

Agnès Narcy

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation UR83 Recherches Avicoles, INRA, Nouzilly, France

Nicole Rideau

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation UR83 Recherches Avicoles, INRA, Nouzilly, France

Céline Chantry-Darmon

Affiliation INRA, LABOGENA, Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy en Josas cedex, France

Marie-Yvonne Boscher

Affiliation INRA, LABOGENA, Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy en Josas cedex, France

Nadine Sellier

Affiliation INRA, UE1295 PEAT, Nouzilly, France

Marie Chabault

Affiliation UR83 Recherches Avicoles, INRA, Nouzilly, France

Barbara Konsak-Ilievski

Affiliation UR83 Recherches Avicoles, INRA, Nouzilly, France

Elisabeth Le Bihan-Duval

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation UR83 Recherches Avicoles, INRA, Nouzilly, France

Irène Gabriel

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau, Irène Gabriel

Affiliation UR83 Recherches Avicoles, INRA, Nouzilly, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMG NR IG NS MC ELBD AN. Performed the experiments: SMG NR IG NS MC ELBD BKI AN MYB CCD. Analyzed the data: SMG. Wrote the paper: SMG NR IG NS MC ELBD BKI AN MYB CCD. Microbiota determination: IG BKI. Genotyping: MYB CCD.