Host genetics and the rumen microbiome jointly associate with methane emissions in dairy cows

• Gareth Frank Difford ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gareth.difford@mbg.au.dk (GFD); goutam.sahana@mbg.au.dk (GS)

  Affiliations Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark, Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding & Genomics, AH Wageningen, Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6792-8722

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• Damian Rafal Plichta,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Dept. of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, Clinical-Microbiomics A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6555-2557

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• Peter Løvendahl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9852-2944

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• Jan Lassen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark, Viking Genetics, Randers SØ, Denmark

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• Samantha Joan Noel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-9598

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• Ole Højberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4947-4536

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• André-Denis G. Wright,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

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• Zhigang Zhu,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

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• Lise Kristensen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

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• Henrik Bjørn Nielsen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Dept. of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, Clinical-Microbiomics A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Bernt Guldbrandtsen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

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• Goutam Sahana

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gareth.difford@mbg.au.dk (GFD); goutam.sahana@mbg.au.dk (GS)

  Affiliation Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

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