Box-Behnken optimisation of growth performance, plasma metabolites and carcass traits as influenced by dietary energy, amino acid and starch to lipid ratios in broiler chickens

• Sonia Y. Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sonia.liu@sydney.edu.au

  Affiliations Poultry Research Foundation, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Camden NSW, Australia, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4519-4905

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• Victor D. Naranjo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Evonik Nutrition and Care, Essen, Germany

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• Peter V. Chrystal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Poultry Research Foundation, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Camden NSW, Australia, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW, Australia, Baiada Poultry Pty Limited, Pendle Hill, NSW, Australia

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• Johan Buyse,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Livestock Physiology, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Peter H. Selle

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poultry Research Foundation, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Camden NSW, Australia

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