About the Authors

Amber Hillaert

Contributed equally to this work with: Amber Hillaert, Daisy J. X. Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging of Domestic Animals and Orthopedics of Small Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Daisy J. X. Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Amber Hillaert, Daisy J. X. Liu

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging of Domestic Animals and Orthopedics of Small Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Sylvie Daminet

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Small Animal Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Bart J. G. Broeckx

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Genetics and Ethology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Emmelie Stock

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging of Domestic Animals and Orthopedics of Small Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Dominique Paepe

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Small Animal Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Myriam Hesta

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging of Domestic Animals and Orthopedics of Small Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Katrien Vanderperren

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Katrien.Vanderperren@ugent.be

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging of Domestic Animals and Orthopedics of Small Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors declare the following competing financial interests: SDMA analyses were financially supported and performed by IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.. The diet used in this study and blood and urine analyses were financially supported by Virbac. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.