Does algae β-glucan affect the fecal bacteriome in dairy calves?

• Gercino Ferreira Virginio Junior ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gercino Ferreira Virginio Junior, Maria Eduarda Reis, Carla Maris Machado Bittar

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

  * E-mail: gercinoferreira@usp.br (GFVJ); carlabittar@usp.br (CMMB)

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7437-138X

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• Maria Eduarda Reis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gercino Ferreira Virginio Junior, Maria Eduarda Reis, Carla Maris Machado Bittar

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Ana Paula da Silva ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Ariany Faria de Toledo ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Amanda Moelemberg Cezar ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Lucas William Mendes,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Leandro Greco,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Kemin Animal Nutrition and Health Division South America, Valinhos, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Horácio Montenegro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8142-896X

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• Luiz Lehmann Coutinho,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Carla Maris Machado Bittar

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gercino Ferreira Virginio Junior, Maria Eduarda Reis, Carla Maris Machado Bittar

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

  * E-mail: gercinoferreira@usp.br (GFVJ); carlabittar@usp.br (CMMB)

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

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