Correlations between behavior and hormone concentrations or gut microbiome imply that domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) living in a group are not like ‘groupmates’

• Hikari Koyasu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: h.koyasu.k@carazabu.com

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction and Reciprocity, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3442-3338

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• Hironobu Takahashi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction and Reciprocity, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Moeka Yoneda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction and Reciprocity, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Syunpei Naba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction and Reciprocity, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Natsumi Sakawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction and Reciprocity, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Ikuto Sasao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction and Reciprocity, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Miho Nagasawa,

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction and Reciprocity, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Takefumi Kikusui

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction and Reciprocity, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

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