About the Authors

Lisa M. Collins

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa M. Collins, Neil D. Warnock, Neil Reid

Affiliations Quercus, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS), Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England

Neil D. Warnock

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa M. Collins, Neil D. Warnock, Neil Reid

Affiliations Quercus, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

David G. Tosh

Affiliation Quercus, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Colin McInnes

Affiliation Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland

David Everest

Affiliation Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA), Addlestone, Surrey, England

W. Ian Montgomery

Affiliations Quercus, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Mike Scantlebury

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Nikki Marks

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Jaimie T. A. Dick

Affiliations Quercus, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS), Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Neil Reid

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa M. Collins, Neil D. Warnock, Neil Reid

neil.reid@qub.ac.uk

Affiliation Quercus, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMC CM DE WIM MS NM JTAD NR. Performed the experiments: NDW DT CM DE. Analyzed the data: LMC NDW NR. Wrote the paper: LMC NDW DT CM DE WIM MS NM JTAD NR.