About the Authors

Eva da Silva-Álvarez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

Vanessa Gómez-Arrones

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Centro de Selección y Reproducción animal de Extremadura. Junta de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

Florencia Correa-Fiz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Unitat Mixta d’Investigació IRTA-UAB en Sanitat Animal, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, IRTA, Programa de Sanitat Animal, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, WOAH Collaborating Centre for the Research and Control of Emerging and Re-Emerging Swine Diseases in Europe (IRTA-CReSA), Barcelona, Spain

Francisco Eduardo Martín-Cano

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

Gemma Gaitskell-Phillips

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

Juan Jesús Carrasco

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centro de Selección y Reproducción animal de Extremadura. Junta de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

Joaquín Rey

Roles Software, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Animal Health, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain

Inés María Aparicio

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Zoology, Faculty of Nursery and Occupational Therapy, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain.

Fernando Juan Peña

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

Juan Manuel Alonso

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Manuel Alonso, Cristina Ortega-Ferrusola

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Health, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain

Cristina Ortega-Ferrusola

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Manuel Alonso, Cristina Ortega-Ferrusola

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cristinaof@unex.es

Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.