Using fecal microbiota as biomarkers for predictions of performance in the selective breeding process of pedigree broiler breeders

• Sandra Díaz-Sánchez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandra Díaz-Sánchez, Allison R. Perrotta

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Food Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America, SaBio IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain

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• Allison R. Perrotta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandra Díaz-Sánchez, Allison R. Perrotta

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Isaac Rockafellow,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Eric J. Alm,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, The Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Ron Okimoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cobb-Vantress, Inc. Research and Development, Genomics and Quantitative Genetics, Siloam Springs, AR, United States of America

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• Rachel Hawken,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cobb-Vantress, Inc. Research and Development, Genomics and Quantitative Genetics, Siloam Springs, AR, United States of America

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• Irene Hanning

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ibhanning@gmail.com

  Affiliation The Graduate School of Genome Sciences and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3886-9564

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