Microbiota of newborn calves and their mothers reveals possible transfer routes for newborn calves’ gastrointestinal microbiota

• Daniela Klein-Jöbstl ,

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

  * E-mail: Daniela.Klein@vetmeduni.ac.at

  Affiliation Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Clinical Unit for Herd Health Management, University Clinic for Ruminants, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5806-7601

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• Narciso M. Quijada,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León, Valladolid, Spain

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• Monika Dzieciol,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Institute of Milk Hygiene, Milk Technology and Food Science, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0972-6241

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• Benjamin Feldbacher,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Clinical Unit for Herd Health Management, University Clinic for Ruminants, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Institute of Milk Hygiene, Milk Technology and Food Science, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Martin Wagner,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Institute of Milk Hygiene, Milk Technology and Food Science, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Marc Drillich,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Clinical Unit for Herd Health Management, University Clinic for Ruminants, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Stephan Schmitz-Esser,

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

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Evelyne Mann

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

  Affiliation Department for Farm Animals and Veterinary Public Health, Institute of Milk Hygiene, Milk Technology and Food Science, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2253-5247

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