The canine vaginal microbiome during heat and fertility in healthy breeding dogs

• Anna Sophia Leps,

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

  Affiliation Unit for Reproductive Medicine – Clinic for Small Animals, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

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• Eva-Maria Packeiser,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit for Reproductive Medicine – Clinic for Small Animals, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-3851

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• Christina Schwens,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antech Lab Germany GmbH, Augsburg, Germany

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• Benjamin Stoelcker,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antech Lab Germany GmbH, Augsburg, Germany

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• Semir Doric,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SYNLAB MVZ Weiden GmbH, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Weiden, Germany

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• Martina Wirkner,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SYNLAB MVZ Weiden GmbH, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Weiden, Germany

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• Beate Walter,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic of Small Animal Surgery and Reproduction at the Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany

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• Axel Wehrend,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Veterinary Clinic for Reproductive Medicine and Neonatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

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• Viktoria Kichmann,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Veterinary Clinic for Reproductive Medicine and Neonatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

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• Klaus Jung,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Animal Genomics, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

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• Sandra Goericke-Pesch

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

  * E-mail: Sandra.Goericke-Pesch@tiho-hannover.de

  Affiliation Unit for Reproductive Medicine – Clinic for Small Animals, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4327-9780

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