About the Authors

William Wheat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, From the Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Lyndah Chow

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, From the Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Vanessa Rozo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, From the Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Julia Herman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, From the Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Kelly Still Brooks

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, From the Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Aimee Colbath

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, From the Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Randy Hunter

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Hunter Cattle Company, Wheatland, Wyoming, United States of America

Steven Dow

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sdow@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, From the Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

SD, AC and RH hold stock options and corporate positions at LaPorte Ag Therapeutics, Inc, a Colorado State University-based startup company developing the LTC immunotherapy platform technology. WW, LC and SD are patent holders for the LTC technology. The issued US patent covering this technology is US 10,512, 687, issued Dec 24, 2019. Any commercial affiliation of the above-mentioned authors with LaPorte Ag Therapeutics, Elanco Inc. or Hunter Cattle Co. did not play a role in the study design, data interpretation, or publication decisions. Accordingly, this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies and sharing data and materials.