Medvecky, Matej
Cejkova, Darina
Polansky, Ondrej
Karasova, Daniela
Kubasova, Tereza
Cizek, Alois
Rychlik, Ivan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Czech Ministry of Agriculture (RO0517)
Czech Ministry of Education (CZ.1.05/2.1.00/01.0006–ED0006/01/01, QJ1310019, LQ1601)
Grantová Agentura České Republiky (15-11688S)
Article History
Received: 27 December 2017
Accepted: 24 July 2018
First Online: 31 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The handling of animals in this study was performed in accordance with current Czech legislation (Animal protection and welfare Act No. 246/1992 Coll. of the Government of the Czech Republic). Experiments performed in this study were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Veterinary Research Institute (permit number 4/2016) followed by the Committee for Animal Welfare of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. The animals used in this study originated from commercial sources. Their use for anaerobic gut microbiota culture was based on verbal consent of private owners due to continuous collaboration between authors’ laboratories and individual owners.
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