Effects of a synbiotic as an antibiotic alternative on behavior, production performance, cecal microbial ecology, and jejunal histomorphology of broiler chickens under heat stress

• Ahmed Mohammed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal and Poultry Behavior and Management, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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• Jiaying Hu,

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

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

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• Raj Murugesan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BIOMIN America, Inc., Overland Park, KS, United States of America

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• Heng-Wei Cheng

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

  * E-mail: Heng-Wei.Cheng@usda.gov

  Affiliation USDA Agricultural Research Service, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0998-5294

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