About the Authors

Moira Kelly

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

moira.kelly@ugent.be (MK); An.martel@ugent.be (AM)

Affiliation Wildlife Health Ghent, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan, Merelbeke, Belgium

Christina A. Cuomo

Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wouter Beukema

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Reptile, Amphibian and Fish Conservation Netherlands (RAVON), ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Salvador Carranza

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Jesse Erens

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Ghent, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan, Merelbeke, Belgium

Marleen Foubert

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Ghent, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan, Merelbeke, Belgium

Zhimin Li

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Ghent, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan, Merelbeke, Belgium

Stefan Lötters

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

Vanessa Schulz

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Technische Universität Braunschweig, Zoological Institute, Braunschweig, Germany

Sebastian Steinfartz

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Leipzig, Institute of Biology, Molecular Evolution and Systematics of Animals, Leipzig, Germany

Sarah Van Praet

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Ghent, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan, Merelbeke, Belgium

Michael Veith

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

Frank Pasmans

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wildlife Health Ghent, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan, Merelbeke, Belgium

An Martel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

moira.kelly@ugent.be (MK); An.martel@ugent.be (AM)

Affiliation Wildlife Health Ghent, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan, Merelbeke, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.