About the Authors

Chuanzhe Song

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jack M. Gallup

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Tim A. Day

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Lyric C. Bartholomay

Contributed equally to this work with: Lyric C. Bartholomay, Michael J. Kimber

lyricb@iastate.edu (LCB); michaek@iastate.edu (MJK)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Michael J. Kimber

Contributed equally to this work with: Lyric C. Bartholomay, Michael J. Kimber

lyricb@iastate.edu (LCB); michaek@iastate.edu (MJK)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TAD LCB MJK. Performed the experiments: CS. Analyzed the data: CS JMG LCB MJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMG. Wrote the paper: CS LCB MJK.