About the Authors

Jalal Abdelhadi

Affiliations University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Small Animal Clinic, Hannover, Germany, University of Tripoli, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Surgery and Reproduction, Tripoli, Libya

Patrick Wefstaedt

Affiliation University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Small Animal Clinic, Hannover, Germany

Ingo Nolte

Affiliation University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Small Animal Clinic, Hannover, Germany

Nadja Schilling

nadja.schilling@tiho-hannover.de

Affiliations University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Small Animal Clinic, Hannover, Germany, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA PW IN NS. Performed the experiments: JA. Analyzed the data: JA NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA NS. Wrote the paper: JA PW IN NS.