About the Authors

Howard S. Ginsberg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hginsberg@usgs.gov

Affiliations US Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Woodward-PSE, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Graham J. Hickling

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Russell L. Burke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, United States of America

Nicholas H. Ogden

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ste-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

Lorenza Beati

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US National Tick Collection, Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Roger A. LeBrun

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Isis M. Arsnoe

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Richard Gerhold

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Seungeun Han

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Kaetlyn Jackson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, United States of America

Lauren Maestas

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Teresa Moody

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Wildlife Health, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Genevieve Pang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Breann Ross

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, United States of America

Eric L. Rulison

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences and Entomology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Jean I. Tsao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.