About the Authors
- Elise A. Lamont
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elise A. Lamont, Ping Wang
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Ping Wang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elise A. Lamont, Ping Wang
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Shinichiro Enomoto
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Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Klaudyna Borewicz
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Affiliation Molecular Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Dreijenplen 10, 6703HB, Wageningen, Netherlands
- Ahmed Abdallah
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Richard E. Isaacson
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Srinand Sreevatsan
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* E-mail: sreev001@umn.edu
Affiliations Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Competing Interests
RI and SS’s roles as academic editors of PLOS ONE does not alter their adherence to PLOS Editorial policies and criteria.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EAL PW SE REI SS. Performed the experiments: EAL PW SE AA KB. Analyzed the data: EAL SS PW SE REI. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SS EAL PW SE KB AA REI. Voted on the manuscript: EAL SS.