Stabilized and unstabilized sampling methods result in differential fecal 16S rRNA microbial sequencing results

• Christopher E. Stamper,

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

  Affiliations Veterans Health Administration, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) for Veteran Suicide Prevention, Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center (RMRVAMC), Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education (MVM-CoRE), Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5584-6212

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• Andrew J. Hoisington,

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

  Affiliations Veterans Health Administration, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) for Veteran Suicide Prevention, Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center (RMRVAMC), Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education (MVM-CoRE), Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Systems Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America

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• Joseph C. Ellis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Netellis LLC, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Christopher A. Lowry,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Veterans Health Administration, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) for Veteran Suicide Prevention, Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center (RMRVAMC), Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education (MVM-CoRE), Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Integrative Physiology, Center for Neuroscience, and Center for Microbial Exploration, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3920-5575

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• Lisa A. Brenner

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

  * E-mail: LISA.2.BRENNER@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU

  Affiliations Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Military and Veteran Microbiome Consortium for Research and Education (MVM-CoRE), Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Veterans Health Administration, Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center (RMRVAMC), Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-214X

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