Fecal microbiota changes associated with dehorning and castration stress primarily affects light-weight dairy calves

• Raies A. Mir,

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

  Affiliations Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), ARS Research Participation Program, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9150-9731

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• Michael D. Kleinhenz,

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

  Affiliations Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

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• Johann F. Coetzee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

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• Heather K. Allen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Indira.Kudva@ars.usda.gov (ITK); Heather.Allen@ars.usda.gov (HKA)

  Affiliation Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa

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• Indira T. Kudva

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Indira.Kudva@ars.usda.gov (ITK); Heather.Allen@ars.usda.gov (HKA)

  Affiliation Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6750-7867

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