About the Authors

Selene J. Huntley

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, The University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Rachel S. Dean

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, The University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Andrew Massey

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, The University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Marnie L. Brennan

marnie.brennan@nottingham.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, The University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine is supported by an unrestricted grant from Elanco Animal Health and The University of Nottingham. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLB RSD. Performed the experiments: MLB RSD. Analyzed the data: SJH AM MLB. Wrote the paper: SJH RSD MLB. Contributed generally to the other tasks that have led to the creation of the manuscript: SJH RSD AM MLB.