About the Authors

Theofilos Poutahidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Theofilos Poutahidis, Sean M. Kearney

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

Sean M. Kearney

Contributed equally to this work with: Theofilos Poutahidis, Sean M. Kearney

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tatiana Levkovich

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

Peimin Qi

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, 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

Jessica R. Lakritz

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

Antonis Chatzigiagkos

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Eric J. Alm

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

Susan E. Erdman

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: TP SMK EJA SEE. Performed the experiments: TL TP PQ BJV YMI JRL SMK SEE. Analyzed the data: TP PQ SMK AC EJA SEE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP EJA SEE. Wrote the paper: TP SMK EJA SEE.