About the Authors

Jinling Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinling Li, Heinrich zu Dohna

Affiliation Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Heinrich zu Dohna

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinling Li, Heinrich zu Dohna

Affiliation Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Carol J. Cardona

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Joy Miller

Current address: Director for National Intelligence, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Affiliation National Center for Medical Intelligence, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Tim E. Carpenter

tecarpenter@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL HzD CJC JM. Analyzed the data: JL HzD TEC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL HzD. Wrote the paper: JL HzD. Manuscript revision: TEC CJC JM. Input in analyses: TEC. Method development: HzD.