About the Authors

Christian Gortázar

christian.gortazar@uclm.es

Affiliation IREC National Wildlife Research Institute (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain

María José Torres

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

Joaquín Vicente

Affiliation IREC National Wildlife Research Institute (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain

Pelayo Acevedo

Affiliation IREC National Wildlife Research Institute (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain

Manuel Reglero

Affiliation IREC National Wildlife Research Institute (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain

José de la Fuente

Affiliations IREC National Wildlife Research Institute (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Ciudad Real, Spain, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Juan José Negro

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

Javier Aznar-Martín

Affiliation Servicio de Microbiología, HH UU Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG JdlF JJN. Performed the experiments: MJT JA. Analyzed the data: CG JV PA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJT MR JA. Wrote the paper: CG JV JdlF JJN.