Dietary sodium butyrate improves intestinal development and function by modulating the microbial community in broilers

• Wei Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-4030

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• Zhibin Xiao,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

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• Wenyi An,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

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• Yuanyang Dong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

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• Bingkun Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bingkunzhang@126.com

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5088-687X

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