About the Authors

Tatiana Levkovich

Contributed equally to this work with: Tatiana Levkovich, Theofilos Poutahidis

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Theofilos Poutahidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Tatiana Levkovich, Theofilos Poutahidis

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Christopher Smillie

Affiliation Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bernard J. Varian

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yassin M. Ibrahim

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessica R. Lakritz

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric J. Alm

ejalm@mit.edu (EJA); serdman@mit.edu (SEE)

Affiliations Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan E. Erdman

ejalm@mit.edu (EJA); serdman@mit.edu (SEE)

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL TP EJA SEE. Performed the experiments: TL TP BJV YMI JRL SEE. Analyzed the data: TP CS EJA SEE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP CS EJA. Wrote the paper: TL TP CS EJA SEE.