Brood Ball-Mediated Transmission of Microbiome Members in the Dung Beetle, Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

• Anne M. Estes ,

  * E-mail: anneestes@gmail.com

  Affiliations Towson University, Department of Biological Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• David J. Hearn,

  Affiliations Towson University, Department of Biological Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., Plant Genomics, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America,

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• Emilie C. Snell-Rood,

  Current address: Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Michele Feindler,

  Affiliation Towson University, Department of Biological Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Karla Feeser,

  Affiliation Towson University, Department of Biological Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Tselotie Abebe,

  Affiliation Towson University, Department of Biological Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Julie C. Dunning Hotopp ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Armin P. Moczek

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Armin P. Moczek

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Armin P. Moczek

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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