Alternatives to Antibiotics: A Symposium on the Challenges and Solutions for Animal Health and Production
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This is a timely review on a highly important topic.
The overall impression is that it could do with some editing to make it more coherent, non-repetitive and clear. It seems a little bit pieced together of chunks of text that have not been fully worked through to merge into one, coherent text.
In addition there are quite a number of linguistic ambiguities making some parts difficult to read - I have indicated some of these in the attached document as comments. I have also indicated a couple of places in which I think key references are lacking. Also consider the balance as the Phytochemicals sections is at least 30% bigger than the other sections - and also reads more like minutes of the meeting than the other sections.
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Comments.pdf
Author Response
We thank the reviewer for their comments and suggestions. All of the suggestions were made in accordance with their comments. Because their comments were embedded in the PDF, it was difficult to produce a line by line response for each one. But all changes were made, and the reviewer definitely increased the strength of the manuscript. THe phytochemical section was cut down by about 31% (word count). All changes are indicated in mark changes in word version. We thank the reviewer and editor for their suggestions for improvement.
Author Response File: 
Author Response.docx
