About the Authors

Maxim Lebedev

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

maxim.i.lebedev@gmail.com (ML); ljgershwin@ucdavis.edu (LJG)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Paul Walsh

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

Affiliation Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Sutter Medical Center Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States of America

John W. Newman

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

Affiliation Obesity and Metabolism Research Unit, USDA, ARS, Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Davis, California, United States of AmericaDepartment of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Victoria N. Mutua

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Heather A. McEligot

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Francisco R. Carvallo Chaigneau

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Laurel J. Gershwin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

maxim.i.lebedev@gmail.com (ML); ljgershwin@ucdavis.edu (LJG)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.