About the Authors

Sandeep K. Gupta

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sandeep.gupta@agresearch.co.nz

Affiliation Animal Health, AgResearch, Hopkirk Research Institute, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Qing Deng

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Animal Health, AgResearch, Hopkirk Research Institute, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Tanushree B. Gupta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Food Safety & Assurance, AgResearch, Hopkirk Research Institute, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Paul Maclean

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Statistics, AgResearch, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Joerg Jores

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Axel Heiser

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Health, AgResearch, Hopkirk Research Institute, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

D. Neil Wedlock

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Health, AgResearch, Hopkirk Research Institute, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Competing Interests

All the authors employed by AgResearch Ltd or the University of Bern declare that no competing interests exist. All the authors declare that affiliation of the authors with AgResearch Ltd or the University of Bern does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.