About the Authors

Chandirasegaran Massilamany

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Arunakumar Gangaplara

Contributed equally to this work with: Arunakumar Gangaplara, Ting Jia

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Ting Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Arunakumar Gangaplara, Ting Jia

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Christian Elowsky

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Guobin Kang

Affiliation Nebraska Center for Virology and School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Jean-Jack Riethoven

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Qingsheng Li

Affiliation Nebraska Center for Virology and School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

You Zhou

Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Jay Reddy

nreddy2@unl.edu

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM JR. Performed the experiments: CM AG TJ. Analyzed the data: CM AG CE YZ J-JR JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CE YZ GK QL. Wrote the paper: CM JR.