Dynamic interactions within the host-associated microbiota cause tumor formation in the basal metazoan Hydra

• Kai Rathje,

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

  Affiliation Zoological Institute, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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• Benedikt Mortzfeld,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Zoological Institute, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0563-8970

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• Marc P. Hoeppner,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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• Jan Taubenheim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Zoological Institute, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, Institute for Zoology and Organismic Interactions, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7283-1768

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• Thomas C. G. Bosch ,

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

  * E-mail: tbosch@zoologie.uni-kiel.de (TCGB); aklimovich@zoologie.uni-kiel.de (AK)

  Affiliation Zoological Institute, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9488-5545

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• Alexander Klimovich

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tbosch@zoologie.uni-kiel.de (TCGB); aklimovich@zoologie.uni-kiel.de (AK)

  Affiliation Zoological Institute, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1764-0613

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