About the Authors

Kristina Nyström

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristina Nyström, Joana Abrantes

Affiliations INSERM, U892; CNRS, UMR6299; Nantes University, Nantes, France, Department of Infectious Diseases, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Joana Abrantes

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristina Nyström, Joana Abrantes

Affiliations INSERM, U892; CNRS, UMR6299; Nantes University, Nantes, France, CIBIO, InBIO—Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, Vairão, Portugal

Ana Margarida Lopes

Affiliations CIBIO, InBIO—Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, Vairão, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Béatrice Le Moullac-Vaidye

Affiliation INSERM, U892; CNRS, UMR6299; Nantes University, Nantes, France

Stéphane Marchandeau

Affiliation Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Direction des Etudes et de la Recherche, CS 42355, Nantes, France

Jézabel Rocher

Affiliation INSERM, U892; CNRS, UMR6299; Nantes University, Nantes, France

Nathalie Ruvoën-Clouet

Affiliations INSERM, U892; CNRS, UMR6299; Nantes University, Nantes, France, Oniris, Ecole Nationale vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de L’alimentation, Nantes, France

Pedro J. Esteves

Affiliations CIBIO, InBIO—Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, Vairão, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, CITS—Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias da Saúde, IPSN, CESPU, Gandra, Portugal

Jacques Le Pendu

Jacques.le-pendu@univ-nantes.fr

Affiliation INSERM, U892; CNRS, UMR6299; Nantes University, Nantes, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KN JA NRC PJE JLP. Performed the experiments: KN JA AML BLM JR. Analyzed the data: KN JA AML SM NRC PJE JLP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM NRC. Wrote the paper: JLP KN JA AML.