About the Authors

Carlotta Catozzi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy

Anna Cuscó

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Vetgenomics. Ed Eureka. PRUAB. Campus UAB, Barcelona, Spain

Cristina Lecchi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy

Esterina De Carlo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, National Reference Centre for Hygiene and Technologies of Water Buffalo Farming and Productions, Salerno, Italy

Domenico Vecchio

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, National Reference Centre for Hygiene and Technologies of Water Buffalo Farming and Productions, Salerno, Italy

Alessandra Martucciello

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, National Reference Centre for Hygiene and Technologies of Water Buffalo Farming and Productions, Salerno, Italy

Luisa D’Angelo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, National Reference Centre for Hygiene and Technologies of Water Buffalo Farming and Productions, Salerno, Italy

Olga Francino

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Veterinary Service (SVGM), Veterinary School, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Armand Sanchez Bonastre

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Veterinary Service (SVGM), Veterinary School, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Fabrizio Ceciliani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

fabrizio.ceciliani@unimi.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy

Competing Interests

AC is affiliated with Vet Genomic. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.