Feeding selenium-biofortified alfalfa hay during the preconditioning period improves growth, carcass weight, and nasal microbial diversity of beef calves

• Jean A. Hall ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Jean.Hall@oregonstate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7758-6703

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• Anitha Isaiah,

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

  Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, TX, United States of America

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• Gerd Bobe,

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

  Affiliations Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

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• Charles T. Estill,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

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• Janell K. Bishop-Stewart,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

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• T. Zane Davis,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA-ARS-Poisonous Plant Research Lab, Logan, UT, United States of America

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• Jan S. Suchodolski,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, TX, United States of America

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• Gene J. Pirelli

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

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