Is bovine somatotropin an alternative strategy to overcome the detrimental effects of high-gain diets on prepubertal Holstein × Gyr heifers?

• Anna Luiza Lacerda Sguizzato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Luiza Lacerda Sguizzato, Simone Eliza Facioni Guimarães, Marcos Inácio Marcondes

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

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Simone Eliza Facioni Guimarães ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Luiza Lacerda Sguizzato, Simone Eliza Facioni Guimarães, Marcos Inácio Marcondes

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Giancarlo Magalhães Santos ,

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

  ¶‡ GMS and EFS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Cenva Post Graduation, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Erollykens Ferreira Santos ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ GMS and EFS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2698-9737

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• Marcos Inácio Marcondes

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Luiza Lacerda Sguizzato, Simone Eliza Facioni Guimarães, Marcos Inácio Marcondes

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marcos.marcondes@wsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4843-2809

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