Proof of principle: Physiological transfer of small numbers of bacteria from mother to fetus in late-gestation pregnant sheep

• Kevin Yu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Michelle D. Rodriguez,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Zubin Paul,

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

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Gordon,

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

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Kelly Rice,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Eric W. Triplett,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Maureen Keller-Wood,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacodynamics, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Charles E. Wood

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

  * E-mail: woodc@ufl.edu

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4648-6873

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