About the Authors

Jamil Cappelli

Affiliations Animal Science Techniques Applied to Wildlife Management Research Group, IREC Section Albacete (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Campus UCLM, Albacete, Spain, Sección de Recursos Cinegéticos y Ganaderos, IDR, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología Agroforestal y Genética, ETSIAM, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

Andrés Garcia

Affiliations Animal Science Techniques Applied to Wildlife Management Research Group, IREC Section Albacete (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Campus UCLM, Albacete, Spain, Sección de Recursos Cinegéticos y Ganaderos, IDR, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología Agroforestal y Genética, ETSIAM, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

Francisco Ceacero

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Food Processing, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences. Prague 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic

Santiago Gomez

Affiliation Departamento de Anatomía Patológica, Universidad de Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain

Salvador Luna

Affiliation Departamento de Enfermería y Fisioterapia, Universidad de Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain

Laureano Gallego

Affiliations Animal Science Techniques Applied to Wildlife Management Research Group, IREC Section Albacete (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Campus UCLM, Albacete, Spain, Sección de Recursos Cinegéticos y Ganaderos, IDR, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología Agroforestal y Genética, ETSIAM, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

Pablo Gambin

Affiliations Animal Science Techniques Applied to Wildlife Management Research Group, IREC Section Albacete (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Campus UCLM, Albacete, Spain, Sección de Recursos Cinegéticos y Ganaderos, IDR, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología Agroforestal y Genética, ETSIAM, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

Tomás Landete-Castillejos

Tomas.Landete@uclm.es

Affiliations Animal Science Techniques Applied to Wildlife Management Research Group, IREC Section Albacete (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Campus UCLM, Albacete, Spain, Sección de Recursos Cinegéticos y Ganaderos, IDR, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología Agroforestal y Genética, ETSIAM, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TLC AG FC LG SG. Performed the experiments: JC AG PG FC SG SL. Analyzed the data: TLC JC FC SG SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC AG PG FC SG SL. Wrote the paper: TLC JC FC LG SG. Created the experimental facilities for deer and maintain them daily: AG LG. Have all equipment for histology studies: SG SL.