About the Authors

José de la Fuente

Affiliations SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Iratxe Díez-Delgado

Affiliations SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain, Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Marinela Contreras

Affiliation SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain

Joaquín Vicente

Affiliation SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain

Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille (CIIL), INSERM U1019 –CNRS UMR 8204, Université de Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France

Raquel Tobes

Affiliation Oh no sequences! Research Group, Era7 Bioinformatics, Granada, Spain

Marina Manrique

Affiliation Oh no sequences! Research Group, Era7 Bioinformatics, Granada, Spain

Vladimir López

Affiliation SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain

Beatriz Romero

Affiliation Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Javier Bezos

Affiliations Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, MAEVA SERVET S.L., Madrid, Spain

Lucas Dominguez

Affiliation Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Iker A. Sevilla

Affiliation NEIKER-Tecnalia, Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Vizcaya, Spain

Joseba M. Garrido

Affiliation NEIKER-Tecnalia, Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Vizcaya, Spain

Ramón Juste

Affiliation NEIKER-Tecnalia, Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Departamento de Sanidad Animal, Vizcaya, Spain

Guillermo Madico

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edward Jones-López

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christian Gortazar

Christian.Gortazar@uclm.es

Affiliation SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ciudad Real, Spain

Competing Interests

RT and MM work at the Research group Oh no sequences! (http://ohnosequences.com/) funded by Era7 Bioinformatics (www.era7bioinformatics.com) that provides Bioinformatics services. This does not alter their adherence to all PLOS policies on sharing data and materials. In this research group everything they do is open source (concretely AGPLv3 licensed). Era7 have an open source philosophy and hence they completely agree with journal open policies. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JdlF LD RJ CG. Performed the experiments: JdlF IDD MC JV ACC RT MM VL BR JB IAS JMG GM EJL CG. Wrote the paper: JdlF CG RT GM EJL.