About the Authors

Elizabeth F. Daut

edaut@sesync.org

Current address: National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, Maryland, United States of America,

Affiliation Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Glenn Lahodny Jr.

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Markus J. Peterson

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Renata Ivanek

Current address: Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EFD GL RI. Performed the experiments: EFD GL RI. Analyzed the data: EFD RI. Wrote the paper: EFD RI MJP.