Shen, Manman
Li, Tingting
Zhang, Genxi
Wu, Pengfei
Chen, Fuxiang
Lou, Qiuhong
Chen, Lan
Yin, Xuemei
Zhang, Tao
Wang, Jinyu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
China Agriculture Research Systems (nycytx-42-G1-05)
Institutes of Agricultural Science and Technology Development
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20181217)
Article History
Received: 16 July 2018
Accepted: 17 January 2019
First Online: 30 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The experimental chickens were from Jiangsu Jinghai Yellow Chick Co. Ltd., located in Nangtong, Jiangsu Province. All experimental procedures were conducted in compliance with Experimental Animals Regulations and all efforts were made to alleviate the suffering of the birds. Ethics approval for this study was granted by the Animal Care Committee of Yangzhou University (Yangzhou, China) with permit number SYXK (Su) 2012–0029 from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.
: Not applicable.
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