About the Authors

Samia Hannaoui

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

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Hotchkiss Brain Institute; University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Elizabeth Triscott

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

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Camilo Duque Velásquez

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

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Sheng Chun Chang

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Hotchkiss Brain Institute; University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Maria Immaculata Arifin

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Hotchkiss Brain Institute; University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Irina Zemlyankina

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Hotchkiss Brain Institute; University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Xinli Tang

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Trent Bollinger

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Holger Wille

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Debbie McKenzie

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Sabine Gilch

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

sgilch@ucalgary.ca

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Hotchkiss Brain Institute; University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.