Single housing but not changes in group composition causes stress-related immunomodulations in horses

• Sonja Schmucker ,

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

  * E-mail: sonja.schmucker@uni-hohenheim.de

  Affiliation Behavioral Physiology of Livestock, Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9410-0819

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• Vanessa Preisler,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Behavioral Physiology of Livestock, Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Isabell Marr,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Equine Economics, Faculty Agriculture, Economics and Management, Nuertingen-Geislingen University, Nuertingen, Germany

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• Konstanze Krüger,

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

  Affiliation Equine Economics, Faculty Agriculture, Economics and Management, Nuertingen-Geislingen University, Nuertingen, Germany

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• Volker Stefanski

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Behavioral Physiology of Livestock, Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

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