Relative telomere length in dairy calves and dams undergoing two different methods of weaning and separation after three months of contact

• Janja Sirovnik ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: janja.sirovnik-koscica@vetmeduni.ac.at

  ¶‡ Janja Sirovnik and Rebecca Simon share first authorship on this work. Gesine Lühken and Uta König von Borstel share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Clinical Department for Farm Animals and Food System Science, Centre for Animal Nutrition and Welfare, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1483-6522

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• Rebecca Simon ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ Janja Sirovnik and Rebecca Simon share first authorship on this work. Gesine Lühken and Uta König von Borstel share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Animal and Pathogenetics, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Anina Vogt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Chair of Animal Husbandry, Behaviour and Welfare, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6896-2244

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• Kerstin Barth,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Forestry and Fisheries, Institute of Organic Farming, Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Westerau, Germany

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• Steve Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

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• Susanne Waiblinger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Department for Farm Animals and Food System Science, Centre for Animal Nutrition and Welfare, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

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• Gesine Lühken ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ Janja Sirovnik and Rebecca Simon share first authorship on this work. Gesine Lühken and Uta König von Borstel share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Animal and Pathogenetics, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Uta König von Borstel

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ Janja Sirovnik and Rebecca Simon share first authorship on this work. Gesine Lühken and Uta König von Borstel share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Chair of Animal Husbandry, Behaviour and Welfare, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7313-1197

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