About the Authors

Jessica E. Martin

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

Jessica.Martin@ed.ac.uk

Affiliations The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Victoria Sandilands

Contributed equally to this work with: Victoria Sandilands, Dorothy E. F. McKeegan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal and Veterinary Science Research Group, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Julian Sparrey

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Livetec Systems Ltd, Silsoe, Bedford, United Kingdom

Laurence Baker

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal and Veterinary Science Research Group, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Laura M. Dixon

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal and Veterinary Science Research Group, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Dorothy E. F. McKeegan

Contributed equally to this work with: Victoria Sandilands, Dorothy E. F. McKeegan

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JS is an employee of a commercial company Livetec Systems Ltd. Based on the research findings, Livetec Systems Ltd is now progressing development of a product. However, the research findings and product are all open access with no IP owned by the Livetec Systems. There are no patents, other products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.