About the Authors

William J. M. Probert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

william.probert@bdi.ox.ac.uk

Current address: Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Chris P. Jewell

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

Affiliation CHICAS, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Marleen Werkman

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Christopher J. Fonnesbeck

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yoshitaka Goto

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

Affiliations Center for Animal Disease Control, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Michael C. Runge

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

Satoshi Sekiguchi

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

Affiliations Center for Animal Disease Control, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Katriona Shea

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology and Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, 208 Mueller Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matt J. Keeling

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

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Matthew J. Ferrari

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

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology and Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, 208 Mueller Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael J. Tildesley

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

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.