About the Authors

Margaret E. Gruen

Affiliations Comparative Pain Research Program, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Marcela Alfaro-Córdoba

Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrea E. Thomson

Affiliation Comparative Pain Research Program, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Alicia C. Worth

Affiliation Comparative Pain Research Program, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Ana-Maria Staicu

astaicu@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

B. Duncan X. Lascelles

Affiliations Comparative Pain Research Program, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Comparative Medicine Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Pain Research and Innovation, University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MG MC AMS BDXL. Data curation: MG MC AMS AT AW BDXL. Formal analysis: MC AMS. Funding acquisition: MG AMS BDXL. Investigation: MG AT AW BDXL. Methodology: MG MC AMS BDXL. Project administration: MG AT AW BDXL. Resources: MG AT MC AMS BDXL. Software: MC AMS. Supervision: AMS BDXL. Validation: AMS BDXL. Visualization: MG MC AMS BDXL. Writing – original draft: MG MC AMS BDXL. Writing – review & editing: MG MC AT AW AMS BDXL.