Effects of dietary supplementation with lysozyme on the structure and function of the cecal microbiota in broiler chickens

• Yun Xia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Xia, Yunhong Kong

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kongyunhong@hotmail.com (YK); xiayun22@hotmail.com (YX)

  Affiliation Department of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University, Kunming, China

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• James Kong,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Computer Science, York University, York, Canada

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• Guobing Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University, Kunming, China

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• Xuxiang Zhang,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

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• Robert Seviour,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Department, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

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• Yunhong Kong

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Xia, Yunhong Kong

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kongyunhong@hotmail.com (YK); xiayun22@hotmail.com (YX)

  Affiliation Department of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University, Kunming, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-1345

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