About the Authors

Emanuela Dalla Costa

Contributed equally to this work with: Emanuela Dalla Costa, Riccardo Pascuzzo, Matthew C. Leach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

emanuela.dallacosta@unimi.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Riccardo Pascuzzo

Contributed equally to this work with: Emanuela Dalla Costa, Riccardo Pascuzzo, Matthew C. Leach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MOX Laboratory for Modelling and Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Matthew C. Leach

Contributed equally to this work with: Emanuela Dalla Costa, Riccardo Pascuzzo, Matthew C. Leach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Newcastle University, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Francesca Dai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Dirk Lebelt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Equine Research & Consulting, Inca, Spain

Simone Vantini

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MOX Laboratory for Modelling and Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Michela Minero

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

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

Dirk Lebelt is not employed by a commercial company. "Equine Research & Consulting" is the name under which he works as an independent researcher and science consultant. He did not receive any funding other the ones declared in the original Funding Statement nor did he act as a funder for this study. "Equine Research & Consulting" is a commercial affiliation, that does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.