About the Authors

Samantha A. Brooks

Samantha.Brooks@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Nicole Gabreski

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Donald Miller

Affiliation Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Abra Brisbin

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

Helen E. Brown

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom

Affiliation Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Cassandra Streeter

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jason Mezey

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

Deborah Cook

Affiliation M. H. Gluck Equine Research Center, Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Douglas F. Antczak

Affiliation Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAB NG. Performed the experiments: SAB NG DM CS. Analyzed the data: SAB NG DM AB JM DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM AB HEB JM DFA. Wrote the paper: SAB DFA.