About the Authors
- Blake C. Guard
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Contributed equally to this work with: Blake C. Guard, Hanna Mila
Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Hanna Mila
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Contributed equally to this work with: Blake C. Guard, Hanna Mila
Affiliation NeoCare, IHAP, Reproduction, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- Jörg M. Steiner
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Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Claire Mariani
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Affiliation Royal Canin, Aimargues, France
- Jan S. Suchodolski
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Affiliation Gastrointestinal Laboratory, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Sylvie Chastant-Maillard
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* E-mail: schastant@envt.fr
Affiliation NeoCare, IHAP, Reproduction, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Competing Interests
Sylvie Chastant-Maillard and Claire Mariani are both employees of Royal Canin. Jan Suchodolski is an editor of PLOS ONE. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist. Furthermore, this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: SC CM HM. Data curation: BCG HM. Formal analysis: BCG JSS. Funding acquisition: SC CM HM. Investigation: BCG HM. Methodology: HM SC CM. Project administration: HM CM SC JSS. Resources: BCG HM JSS JMS CM SC. Software: BCG. Supervision: CM SC JSS JMS. Validation: BCG HM CM JSS SC JMS. Visualization: BCG HM. Writing – original draft: BCG. Writing – review & editing: BCG HM SC CM JSS.