About the Authors
- Frederick Arnaud
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Affiliation Institute of Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Glasgow, Scotland
- Marco Caporale
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Affiliation Institute of Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Glasgow, Scotland
- Mariana Varela
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Affiliation Institute of Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Glasgow, Scotland
- Roman Biek
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Affiliation Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
- Bernardo Chessa
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Affiliation Sezione di Malattie Infettive del Dipartimento di Patologia e Clinica Veterinaria, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Alberto Alberti
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Affiliation Sezione di Malattie Infettive del Dipartimento di Patologia e Clinica Veterinaria, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Matthew Golder
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Affiliation Institute of Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Glasgow, Scotland
- Manuela Mura
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Affiliation Institute of Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Glasgow, Scotland
- Ya-ping Zhang
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Li Yu
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Affiliation Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bioresources, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
- Filipe Pereira
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Affiliations Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal , Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- James C DeMartini
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Kreg Leymaster
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Affiliation United States Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Nebraska, United States of America
- Thomas E Spencer
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Affiliation Center for Animal Biotechnology and Genomics, Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Massimo Palmarini
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m.palmarini@vet.gla.ac.uk
Affiliation Institute of Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Glasgow, Scotland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
FA, TES, and MP conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper. FA, MC, MV, RB, BC, MG, MM, and LY performed the experiments. FA, MC, MV, RB, BC, TES, and MP analyzed the data. AA, YPZ, FP, JCD, and KL contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.