About the Authors

William J. Love

wjlove@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Kelson A. Zawack

Affiliations Department of Biological Statistics & Computational Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Tri-Institutional Program in Computational Biology & Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America

James G. Booth

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics & Computational Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Yrjo T. Grӧhn

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Cristina Lanzas

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJL YTG CL. Performed the experiments: WJL. Analyzed the data: WJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJL KAZ JGB. Wrote the paper: WJL.