About the Authors

Keith A. Russell

karussell.edu@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Thomas W. G. Gibson

Affiliation Clinical Studies, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Andrew Chong

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Carmon Co

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Thomas G. Koch

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, The Orthopaedic Research Lab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAR TWG TGK. Performed the experiments: KAR AC CC. Analyzed the data: KAR AC CC TGK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAR TWG TGK. Wrote the paper: KAR TWG AC CC TGK.