About the Authors

Orla Doherty

orladoherty@live.ie

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Vincent Casey

Contributed equally to this work with: Vincent Casey, Paul McGreevy, Sean Arkins

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Paul McGreevy

Contributed equally to this work with: Vincent Casey, Paul McGreevy, Sean Arkins

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sean Arkins

Contributed equally to this work with: Vincent Casey, Paul McGreevy, Sean Arkins

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OD VC PMcG SA. Formal analysis: OD VC PMcG. Funding acquisition: OD VC. Investigation: OD. Methodology: OD VC SA. Project administration: OD. Resources: OD. Supervision: OD PMcG VC. Visualization: OD PMcG SA VC. Writing – original draft: OD SA VC PMcG. Writing – review & editing: OD VC SA PMcG.