About the Authors

Victoria I. Verhoeve

Current address: Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26505, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, United States of America

Krit Jirakanwisal

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, United States of America

Tadanobu Utsuki

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, United States of America

Kevin R. Macaluso

kmacal2@lsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KRM VIV. Data curation: VIV. Formal analysis: VIV KJ. Funding acquisition: KRM. Methodology: TU KJ. Project administration: KRM. Software: VIV. Validation: TU KJ. Visualization: VIV KJ. Writing – original draft: TU VIV KRM. Writing – review & editing: VIV KJ KRM.