About the Authors

Timothy J. Johnson

joh04207@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Jessica L. Danzeisen

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Darrell Trampel

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Lisa K. Nolan

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Torsten Seemann

Affiliation Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Ragnhild J. Bager

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Life Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

Anders M. Bojesen

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Life Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJJ DT LKN AMB. Performed the experiments: TJJ JLD DT. Analyzed the data: TJJ TS RJB AMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJJ AMB. Wrote the paper: TJJ AMB.