About the Authors

Heather Wilson-Robles

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

hwilson@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Tasha Miller

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jill Jarvis

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jason Terrell

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Volition America & Volition Veterinary Diagnostic Development, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Nathan Dewsbury

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Volition America & Volition Veterinary Diagnostic Development, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Terry Kelly

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Volition America & Volition Veterinary Diagnostic Development, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Marielle Herzog

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Belgian Volition SPRL, Isnes, Belgium

Thomas Bygott

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Belgian Volition SPRL, Isnes, Belgium

Nathalie Hardat

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Belgian Volition SPRL, Isnes, Belgium

Gaetan Michel

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Belgian Volition SPRL, Isnes, Belgium

Competing Interests

I have read the Journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JT, ND, TK, MH, TB NH and GM are employees of Belgian Volition & Volition America, which have patents covering Nu.Q technology and are developers of Nu.Q™ assays. Volition Veterinary is a joint venture between Belgian Volition and Texas A&M University. HWR is a paid consultant of Volition Veterinary. TM and JJ have no conflicts of interest to declare. Additional salary support for TM was provided by the Fred and Vola Palmer Chair in Comparative Oncology held by HWR. The Palmers did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript and only provided financial support for the authors’ salaries (T.M.). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.