An expansin-like protein expands forage cell walls and synergistically increases hydrolysis, digestibility and fermentation of livestock feeds by fibrolytic enzymes

• Andres A. Pech-Cervantes,

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

  Current address: Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA, United States of America.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4709-9098

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• Ibukun M. Ogunade,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Division of Food and Animal Science, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY, United States of America

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• Yun Jiang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Muhammad Irfan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Kathy G. Arriola,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Felipe X. Amaro,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Claudio F. Gonzalez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Nicolas DiLorenzo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• John J. Bromfield,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Diwakar Vyas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Adegbola T. Adesogan

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adesogan@ufl.edu

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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