Wastewater treatment works change the intestinal microbiomes of insectivorous bats

• Calvin Mehl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• M. Corrie Schoeman,

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

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Tomasz J. Sanko,

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

  Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-7067

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• Carlos Bezuidenhout,

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

  Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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• Charlotte M. S. Mienie,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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• Wolfgang Preiser,

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

  Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Tygerberg Hospital, Tygerberg, South Africa

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• Dalene Vosloo

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

  * E-mail: voslood@ukzn.ac.za

  Affiliation Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1341-1859

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