About the Authors

Valerie T. Ramirez

Contributed equally to this work with: Valerie T. Ramirez, Dayn R. Godinez

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department, of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Dayn R. Godinez

Contributed equally to this work with: Valerie T. Ramirez, Dayn R. Godinez

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department, of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Ingrid Brust-Mascher

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department, of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Eric B. Nonnecke

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UC Davis School of Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Patricia A. Castillo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UC Davis School of Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Mariana Barboza Gardner

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department, of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Diane Tu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jessica A. Sladek

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department, of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Elaine N. Miller

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department, of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Carlito B. Lebrilla

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Charles L. Bevins

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UC Davis School of Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Melanie G. Gareau

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department, of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Colin Reardon

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

creardon@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department, of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.