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

Affiliations Small Animal Clinical Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Volition Veterinary Diagnostics Development, Henderson, Nevada, United States of America

Emma Warry

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Jill Jarvis

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Matthew Matsushita

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Pamela Miller

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Marielle Herzog

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

Affiliation Belgian Volition SRL, Parc Scientifique Crealys, Isnes, Belgium

Jean-Valery Turatsinze

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

Affiliation Belgian Volition SRL, Parc Scientifique Crealys, Isnes, Belgium

Theresa K. Kelly

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Volition America LLC, Henderson, Nevada, United States of America

S. Thomas Butera

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

Affiliation Volition Veterinary Diagnostics Development, Henderson, Nevada, United States of America

Gaetan Michel

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Belgian Volition SRL, Parc Scientifique Crealys, Isnes, Belgium, Volition America LLC, Henderson, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

JVT, TK, MH, TB and GM are employees of Belgian Volition, Volition Diagnostics UK ltd & Volition America, which have patents covering Nu. Q technology and are developers of Nu.QTM assays. Volition Veterinary is a joint venture between Belgian Volition and Texas A&M University. HWR is a paid consultant of Volition Veterinary. EW, TM, PM, MM 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.