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About the Authors
- Carina Salt
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: carina.salt@effem.com
Affiliation Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Mars Petcare, Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Penelope J. Morris
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Mars Petcare, Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Richard F. Butterwick
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Mars Petcare, Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Elizabeth M. Lund
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Banfield Pet Hospital, Vancouver, WA, United States of America
- Tim J. Cole
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Alexander J. German
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Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Neston, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
CS, PJM, and RFB are employees of WALTHAM, EML is an employee of Banfield Pet Hospitals, and both are owned by Mars Inc. AJG is an employee of the University of Liverpool, but his post is financially supported by Royal Canin, which is owned by Mars Petcare. AJG has also received financial remuneration for providing educational material, speaking at conferences, and consultancy work from this company; all such remuneration has been for projects unrelated to the work reported in this manuscript. TJC received financial remuneration for initial guidance on curve development, and for advice on developing charts as a clinical tool for growth monitoring. Remuneration was not received for drafting, reviewing and approving the manuscript for publication. None of these declarations alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.