About the Authors

Jiri Pikula

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pikulaj@vfu.cz

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Diseases of Game, Fish and Bees, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Sybill K. Amelon

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Hana Bandouchova

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Diseases of Game, Fish and Bees, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Tomáš Bartonička

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Hana Berkova

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

Jiri Brichta

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Diseases of Game, Fish and Bees, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Sarah Hooper

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Tomasz Kokurewicz

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biology, Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Palaeontology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland

Miroslav Kolarik

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Fungal Genetics and Metabolism, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Bernd Köllner

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Veronika Kovacova

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Diseases of Game, Fish and Bees, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Petr Linhart

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Diseases of Game, Fish and Bees, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Vladimir Piacek

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Diseases of Game, Fish and Bees, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Gregory G. Turner

Roles Resources

Affiliation Pennsylvania Game Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jan Zukal

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

Natália Martínková

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.