Nutritional and environmental factors involved in egg shell quality of laying hens

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• Current address: Department of Animal Science, University of Tennessee, Box 1071, Knoxville, TN 37901–1071, USA.
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• Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA.
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