Can dietary supplementation with highly purified fucoidan alter growth, digestive enzyme activity, serum biochemicals, immune-antioxidant responses, and related gene expressions in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)?

• Eman Y. Mohammady ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eman Y. Mohammady, Mohamed R. Soaudy

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

  Affiliation Aquaculture Division, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, NIOF, Cairo, Egypt

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• Mohamed R. Soaudy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eman Y. Mohammady, Mohamed R. Soaudy

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Animal Production, Fish Research Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture at Moshtohor, Benha University, Egypt

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• Mohamed A. Elashry ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Production, Fish Research Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture at Moshtohor, Benha University, Egypt

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• Ehab R. El-Haroun ,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Mohamed.hassaan@fagr.bu.edu.eg (MSH); ehab.reda@uaeu.ac.ae (ERE)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Animal Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Department of Integrative Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Mohamed S. Hassaan

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Mohamed.hassaan@fagr.bu.edu.eg (MSH); ehab.reda@uaeu.ac.ae (ERE)

  Affiliation Department of Animal Production, Fish Research Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture at Moshtohor, Benha University, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6725-1715

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