About the Authors

Rick E. Masonbrink

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

remkv6@iastate.edu

Affiliation Genome Informatics Facility, Department of Biotech, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

David Alt

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Darrell O. Bayles

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Paola Boggiatto

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

William Edwards

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Laboratory, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Fred Tatum

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jeffrey Williams

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jennifer Wilson-Welder

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Aleksey Zimin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew Severin

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genome Informatics Facility, Department of Biotech, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Steven Olsen

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

Affiliation Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.