About the Authors

Chad J. Johnson

Current address: Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Comparative Bioscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Allen Herbst

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Agriculture Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Camilo Duque-Velasquez

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Agriculture Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Joshua P. Vanderloo

Current address: School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Comparative Bioscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Phil Bochsler

Affiliation Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Rick Chappell

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Medical Bioinformatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Debbie McKenzie

Debbie.mckenzie@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJJ AH CD-V DM. Performed the experiments: CJJ AH CD-V JPV PB. Analyzed the data: CJJ AH CD-V RC DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB RC. Wrote the paper: CJJ AH DM.