About the Authors

Emir Hodzic

swbarthold@ucdavis.edu (SWB); ehodzic@ucdavis.edu (EH)

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Denise Imai

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Sunlian Feng

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Stephen W. Barthold

swbarthold@ucdavis.edu (SWB); ehodzic@ucdavis.edu (EH)

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SWB EH SF. Performed the experiments: SWB EH DI SF. Analyzed the data: EH SWB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SWB EH DI SF. Wrote the paper: SWB EH.