A healthy gastrointestinal (GI) tract with a properly established microbiota is necessary for a
foal to develop into a healthy weanling. A foal's health can be critically impacted by
aberrations in the microbiome such as with diarrhea which can cause great morbidity and
mortality in foals. In this study, we hypothesized that gut establishment in the foal
transitioning from a diet of milk to a diet of grain, forage, and pasture would be detectable
through analyses of the fecal microbiotas. Fecal samples from 37 sets of foals and mares …

The fifth author's name is spelled incorrectly. The correct name is: Elenamarie O'Malley. The
correct citation is: De La Torre U, Henderson JD, Furtado KL, Pedroja M, O'Malley E, Mora A,
et al.(2019) Utilizing the fecal microbiota to understand foal gut transitions from birth to
weaning. PLoS ONE 14 (4): e0216211. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal. pone. 0216211. The
publisher apologizes for the error.