About the Authors

Guillaume Lhermie

Affiliation Vétoquinol, Lure, France

Farid El Garch

Affiliation Vétoquinol, Lure, France

Pierre-Louis Toutain

Affiliations INRA, UMR1331 TOXALIM, Toulouse, France, Université de Toulouse, INPT, ENVT, EIP, UPS, Toulouse, France

Aude A. Ferran

Affiliations INRA, UMR1331 TOXALIM, Toulouse, France, Université de Toulouse, INPT, ENVT, EIP, UPS, Toulouse, France

Alain Bousquet-Mélou

a.bousquet-melou@envt.fr

Affiliations INRA, UMR1331 TOXALIM, Toulouse, France, Université de Toulouse, INPT, ENVT, EIP, UPS, Toulouse, France

Competing Interests

Guillaume Lhermie and Farid El Garch have an affiliation to the commercial funder Vetoquinol. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL FEG PLT AAF ABM. Performed the experiments: GL FEG AAF. Analyzed the data: GL FEG PLT AAF ABM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL FEG PLT AAF ABM. Wrote the paper: GL FEG PLT AAF ABM.