Dietary inulin supplementation modulates the composition and activities of carbohydrate-metabolizing organisms in the cecal microbiota of broiler chickens

• Yun Xia ,

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

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

  Affiliation School of Agriculture and Life Science, Kunming University, Kunming, China

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• Jiarong Miao,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

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

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• Yu Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation School of Agriculture and Life Science, Kunming University, Kunming, China

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• Hongbo Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation School of Agriculture and Life Science, Kunming University, Kunming, China

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• Lingdong Kong,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation School of Agriculture and Life Science, Kunming 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

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

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

  Affiliation Dianchi Lake Environmental Protection Collaborative Research Center, Kunming University, Kunming, China

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

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