Temporal changes in the fecal bacterial community in Holstein dairy calves from birth through the transition to a solid diet

• Meagan L. Hennessy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meagan L. Hennessy, Nagaraju Indugu, Bonnie Vecchiarelli, Dipti Pitta

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, United States of America

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• Nagaraju Indugu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meagan L. Hennessy, Nagaraju Indugu, Bonnie Vecchiarelli, Dipti Pitta

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, United States of America

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• Bonnie Vecchiarelli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meagan L. Hennessy, Nagaraju Indugu, Bonnie Vecchiarelli, Dipti Pitta

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, United States of America

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• Joseph Bender ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, United States of America

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• Christa Pappalardo ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, United States of America

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• Miranda Leibstein ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Oceanside High School, Oceanside, NY, United States of America

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• John Toth ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, United States of America

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• Ananya Katepalli ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Northwest High School, Germantown, MD, United States of America

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• Satvik Garapati ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Dipti Pitta

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meagan L. Hennessy, Nagaraju Indugu, Bonnie Vecchiarelli, Dipti Pitta

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

  * E-mail: dpitta@vet.upenn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3102-9119

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