Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in domestic cats imposes a narrow bottleneck

• Katarina M. Braun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katarina M. Braun, Gage K. Moreno

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3612-9319

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• Gage K. Moreno ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katarina M. Braun, Gage K. Moreno

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4738-5318

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• Peter J. Halfmann,

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

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Influenza Research Institute, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Emma B. Hodcroft,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventative Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0078-2212

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• David A. Baker,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6811-8238

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• Emma C. Boehm,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5984-9998

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• Andrea M. Weiler,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Amelia K. Haj,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1453-341X

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• Masato Hatta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Influenza Research Institute, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9586-0497

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• Shiho Chiba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Influenza Research Institute, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0415-6013

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• Tadashi Maemura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Influenza Research Institute, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Yoshihiro Kawaoka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Influenza Research Institute, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5061-8296

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• Katia Koelle,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0254-6141

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• David H. O’Connor,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2139-470X

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• Thomas C. Friedrich

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

  * E-mail: tfriedri@wisc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9831-6895

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