About the Authors

Christopher Jon Banks

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

Affiliation Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Aeron Sanchez

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Vicki Stewart

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UK Farmcare Ltd., Stone, United Kingdom

Kate Bowen

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UK Farmcare Ltd., Stone, United Kingdom

Thomas Doherty

† Deceased.

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Oliver Tearne

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Animal and Plant Health Agency, Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom

Graham Smith

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Wildlife Management Centre, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom

Rowland R. Kao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

rowland.kao@ed.ac.uk

Affiliations Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: RRK is the chair of Defra’s Science Advisory Council and Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases (SAC-ED). These competing interests will not alter adherence to PLOS policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have no competing interests to declare.