About the Authors

Agustín Estrada-Peña

aestrada@unizar.es

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Veterinary Faculty, Zaragoza, Spain

Pelayo Acevedo

Affiliations Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC–UCLM–JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain, Wildlife Ecology and Management Group, Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom

Francisco Ruiz-Fons

Affiliation Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC–UCLM–JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain

Christian Gortázar

Affiliation Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC–UCLM–JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain

José de la Fuente

Affiliations Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC–UCLM–JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AEP PA JdlF. Performed the experiments: AEP PA FRF JdlF. Analyzed the data: AEP PA FRF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AEP JdlF. Wrote the paper: AEP PA FRF CG JdlF.