Retracted: Sugarcane bagasse ameliorates zootechnical performances and expression of growth- immune-related, and antioxidant genes of Litopenaeus vannamei larvae in the biofloc technology

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors. In investigating concerns regarding suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper the Editors reached out to the authors for an explanation. In summary, two author names were removed from the original paper during revision. Two additional authors were then added to the revised paper without explanation and without exceptional approval by the journal Editors, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The authors failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to the above changes. Post-publication, the Editors also discovered suspicious email addresses used by the corresponding author during submission for certain authors that were not associated with legitimate researcher accounts. The Editors have determined that the authorship of the paper cannot be relied upon, and the article needs to be retracted. The authors disagree with the retraction of the article and dispute the grounds for it.