The effect of dietary supplementation with Clostridium butyricum on the growth performance, immunity, intestinal microbiota and disease resistance of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

• Hongqin Li,

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

  Affiliations Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, College of Animal Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Animal Feed Science Research Institute, New Hope Liuhe Co., Ltd, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0412-4225

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• Ying Zhou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Technology Center, Sun HY Bio Co., Ltd, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Huayun Ling,

  Roles Resources, Software

  Affiliation Technology Center, Sun HY Bio Co., Ltd, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Li Luo,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Aquaculture, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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• Desheng Qi,

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

  Affiliation Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, College of Animal Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Lin Feng

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: qds@mail.hzau.edu.cn (DQ); fenglin@sicau.edu.cn (LF)

  Affiliation Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

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