About the Authors

Nadja Herbach

herbach@patho.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Center for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany

Martina Bergmayr

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Center for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany

Burkhard Göke

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, University Clinic Grosshadern, LMU Munich, Germany

Eckhard Wolf

Affiliation Chair for Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, and Laboratory for Functional Genome Analysis (LAFUGA), Gene Center, LMU Munich, Germany

Ruediger Wanke

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Center for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NH RW. Performed the experiments: NH MB. Analyzed the data: NH MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NH RW. Wrote the paper: NH. Revised manuscript: BG EW. Final approval of the version to be published: NH MB BG EW RW.