April Zhang

I. INTRODUCTIONThe increased recognition of antimicrobial resistance as a public health risk and, therefore, the imposed restrictions on the use of antimicrobial growth promoters (AGP), has driven the search for novel nutritional strategies for broiler chickens. The advances in molecular biology, analytics, and data science in the past years have enhanced our understating of the gastrointestinal t ...

An increase in dietary phytate concentration may limit the availability of both phosphorus (P) and calcium (Ca) as a result of the progressive formation of Ca-phytate complexes along the gastrointestinal tract (Selle et al., 2009). However, inconsistent results were reported regarding the impact of phytate on P and Ca release in the presence of phytase with broilers, presumably due to the differen ...