Longitudinal microbiome profiling reveals impermanence of probiotic bacteria in domestic pigeons

• Kirsten Grond ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsten Grond, Julie M. Perreau, Wesley T. Loo

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

  * E-mail: kirsten.grond@uconn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6197-7139

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• Julie M. Perreau ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsten Grond, Julie M. Perreau, Wesley T. Loo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Wesley T. Loo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsten Grond, Julie M. Perreau, Wesley T. Loo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• A. James Spring ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Independent Researcher: Sutton, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Colleen M. Cavanaugh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sarah M. Hird

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

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