About the Authors

Kate Fenner

kate@kandooequine.com.au

Affiliation Kandoo Equine, Towrang, New South Wales, Australia

Samuel Yoon

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Peter White

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter White, Melissa Starling

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Melissa Starling

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter White, Melissa Starling

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Paul McGreevy

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KF SY PM. Performed the experiments: KF SY. Analyzed the data: KF SY MS PM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF SY MS PM. Wrote the paper: KF SY PW MS PM.