Identification of shared bacterial strains in the vaginal microbiota of related and unrelated reproductive-age mothers and daughters using genome-resolved metagenomics

• Michael T. France,

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

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Sarah E. Brown,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Anne M. Rompalo,

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

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Rebecca M. Brotman,

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

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8762-6214

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• Jacques Ravel

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

  * E-mail: jravel@som.umaryland.edu

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0851-2233

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