Temporal establishment of the colon microbiota in Angus calves from birth to post-weaning

• Michelle M. Stafford,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Teagasc Grange, Meath, Ireland, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8176-8569

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• Paul E. Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Teagasc Grange, Meath, Ireland

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• Sinead M. Waters,

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

  Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, University Rd, Galway, Ireland

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• Frank Buckley,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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• Steven McLoughlin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Stuart F. Kirwan,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Teagasc Grange, Meath, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7836-1584

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• Eoin O’Hara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Agricultural, Food, & Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Lethbridge, Canada

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• David A. Kenny

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

  * david.kenny@teagasc.ie

  Affiliation Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Teagasc Grange, Meath, Ireland

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