Murine Gut Microbiota Is Defined by Host Genetics and Modulates Variation of Metabolic Traits

• Autumn M. McKnite ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Autumn M. McKnite, Maria Elisa Perez-Munoz

  Affiliation Animal Science Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Maria Elisa Perez-Munoz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Autumn M. McKnite, Maria Elisa Perez-Munoz

  Affiliation Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Lu Lu,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Evan G. Williams,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Integrative and Systems Physiology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Simon Brewer,

  Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Pénélope A. Andreux,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Integrative and Systems Physiology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• John W. M. Bastiaansen,

  Affiliation Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Xusheng Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Stephen D. Kachman,

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Johan Auwerx,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Integrative and Systems Physiology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Robert W. Williams,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Andrew K. Benson,

  Affiliation Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Daniel A. Peterson,

  Affiliations Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Pathology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Daniel C. Ciobanu

  * E-mail: dciobanu2@unl.edu

  Affiliation Animal Science Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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