About the Authors

Vincent Martin

Affiliation Emergency Centre for the Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Beijing, China

Dirk U. Pfeiffer

Affiliation Veterinary Epidemiology & Public Health Group, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Xiaoyan Zhou

Affiliation Emergency Centre for the Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Beijing, China

Xiangming Xiao

Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Diann J. Prosser

Affiliations USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Fusheng Guo

Affiliation Emergency Centre for the Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Beijing, China

Marius Gilbert

mgilbert@ulb.ac.be

Affiliations Biological Control and Spatial Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VM. Performed the experiments: VM. Analyzed the data: VM DUP XZ XX DJP MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG. Wrote the paper: VM DUP MG.