About the Authors

Ekaterina G. Viktorova

Contributed equally to this work with: Ekaterina G. Viktorova, Jules A. Nchoutmboube

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine and Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Jules A. Nchoutmboube

Contributed equally to this work with: Ekaterina G. Viktorova, Jules A. Nchoutmboube

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Current address: Merck Research Laboratories, Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine and Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Lauren A. Ford-Siltz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: FDA CBER, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine and Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Ethan Iverson

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

George A. Belov

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

gbelov@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine and Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.