About the Authors
- Emanuela Dalla Costa
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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
* E-mail: emanuela.dallacosta@unimi.it
Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
- Riccardo Pascuzzo
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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
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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
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
- Dirk Lebelt
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Equine Research & Consulting, Inca, Spain
- Simone Vantini
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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
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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.