About the Authors

Mary Langevin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cat´s Cradle Catahoulas, Oro Medonte, Ontario, Canada

Helena Synkova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation European Association of Louisiana Catahoulas, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Tereza Jancuskova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Vemodia a.s., Laboratory for veterinary Molecular Diagnostics, Prague, Czech Republic

Sona Pekova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

sona.pekova@vemodia.cz

Affiliation Vemodia a.s., Laboratory for veterinary Molecular Diagnostics, Prague, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

Vemodia a.s. provided resources for veterinary molecular diagnostics and provided support in the form of salaries of the authors (TJ and SP). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.