Huang, Yanping
Wang, Baowei http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4367-2248
Liu, Guodong
Ge, Wenhua
Zhang, Mingai
Yue, Bin
Kong, Min
Funding for this research was provided by:
Qingdao Municipal Science and Technology Bureau (CARS-42-14)
National Key R&D Program “Application and Demonstration of Green Waterfowl Efficient Safe Aquaculture Technology (2018YFD0501501)
Article History
Received: 25 March 2019
Accepted: 27 June 2019
First Online: 31 August 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: The use of the animals and the experimental protocol for the animal experiments were approved by the Animal Ethics Committee of the College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, China (protocol number 10/2018).
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The present study is one of the few assessments of the biological effects of <i>Bacillus subtilis</i>-Zn used as a new trace element source. We confirmed that <i>Bacillus subtilis</i>-Zn is a superior source of Zn to ZnSO<sub>4</sub>.
: The results from the present study were obtained from the congenital zinc-deficient rats and might not be directly parallel to humans, so further research is needed.