About the Authors

William J Murphy

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: wmurphy@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Alison J. Pearks Wilkerson

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Terje Raudsepp

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Richa Agarwala

Affiliation Information Engineering Branch/National Center for Biotechnology Information/National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alejandro A Schäffer

Affiliation Computational Biology Branch/National Center for Biotechnology Information/National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Roscoe Stanyon

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Genetics, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

Bhanu P Chowdhary

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

WJM conceived and designed the experiments. WJM, AJPW, and TR performed the experiments. WJM, AJPW, TR, RA, AAS, and BPC analyzed the data. WJM, TR, RA, AAS, RS, and BPC contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. WJM, AJPW, TR, RA, AAS, and BPC wrote the paper.