Droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) assays integrated with an internal control for quantification of bovine, porcine, chicken and turkey species in food and feed

• Hanan R. Shehata,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Microbiology Department, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

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• Jiping Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory Services Division, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Shu Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: schen@uoguelph.ca

  Affiliation Laboratory Services Division, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-9245

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• Helen Redda,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliations Laboratory Services Division, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Shumei Cheng,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Current address: College of Food Science and Technology, Agriculture University of Hebei, Baoding, Hebei, P. R. China

  Affiliation Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Nicole Tabujara,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory Services Division, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Honghong Li,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratory Services Division, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Keith Warriner,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Robert Hanner

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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