About the Authors

Gunavanthi D. Y. Boorgula

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pulmonary Immunology, Center for Biomedical Research, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

A. Townsend Peterson

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Desmond H. Foley

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

Affiliation Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Department of Entomology, National Museum of History, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Roman R. Ganta

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Ram K. Raghavan

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

RaghavanRK@missouri.edu

Affiliation Center for Vector-borne and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Departments of Veterinary Pathobiology and Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Health Professions, University of Missouri, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.