Fast growth rate is associated with musculoskeletal biomechanical imbalance and dorsal cranial myopathy in broiler chickens

• Marconi Italo Lourenço-Silva ,

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

  * E-mail: marconi.italo@unesp.br

  Affiliation Department of Animal Production and Preventive Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences (FMVZ), São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3636-4805

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• Anderson Hassell Norton III,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Leonie Jacobs

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Animal Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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