Cuts or carcasses? Diet form affects fecal microbial and animal fiber fractions in a large carnivore, the Asiatic lion

• Mengmeng Sun ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nutrition@ugent.be

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biosciences, Ghent University, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3696-0946

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• Annelies De Cuyper,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biosciences, Ghent University, Belgium

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• Yunhan Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biosciences, Ghent University, Belgium

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• Marcus Clauss,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Biosciences, Ghent University, Belgium, Clinic for Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and Wildlife, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3841-6207

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• Anouk Fens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Apenheul, the Netherlands

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• Linda G. R. Bruins-van Sonsbeek,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Nutrition Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands

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• Geert P. J. Janssens

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biosciences, Ghent University, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5191-3657

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