Detection of QTL controlling digestive efficiency and anatomy of the digestive tract in chicken fed a wheat-based diet

Table 1 Diet composition

Ingredients	Content (%)
Corn	6.04
Rialto¹ wheat	52.53
Soybean oil	6.00
Soybean meal 48	28.40
Corn gluten 60	3.10
Calcium carbonate	1.34
Dicalcium phosphate	1.58
Sodium chloride	0.30
Mineral and vitamin mix²	0.35
DL Methionine	0.12
L-Lysine 78	0.22
Clinacox³	0.02
Characteristics ⁴ (calculated)
AMEn (kcal.kg^-1)	3110
Crude proteins (%)	21.1
Lysine (%)	1.16
Methionine + Cystine (%)	0.83
Calcium (%)	1.11
Total phosphorus (%)	0.66
Non-phytate phosphorus (%)	0.42

¹Wheat was from the Rialto cultivar characterized as “medium hard”, and by a high viscosity of water extract.
²Supplied per kilogram of diet and composed of 0.5 mg Co, 16 mg Cu, 47 mg Fe, 1.6 mg I, 65 mg Mn, 0.2 mg Se, 72 mg Zn, 12 000 IU retinyl acetate, 3440 IU cholecalciferol, 80 mg dl-α tocopheryl acetate, 4 mg thiamine, 6.4 mg riboflavin, 20 mg calcium pantothenate, 0.02 mg vitamin B12, 4 mg menadione, 5.6 mg pyridoxine hydrochloride, 0.4 mg folic acid, 0.24 mg biotin, 80 mg niacin, 440 mg choline, 40 mg antioxidant; ³Coccidiostat; ⁴Calculated [22].

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