About the Authors

Valeria R. Parreira

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Marcio Costa

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Felix Eikmeyer

Affiliation Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Jochen Blom

Affiliation Bioinformatics Resource Facility, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, D-33594 Bielefeld, Germany

John F. Prescott

prescott@uoguelph.ca.

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VRP JFP. Performed the experiments: VRP MC. Analyzed the data: VRP MC FE JB JFP. Wrote the paper: VRP JFP.