About the Authors

Nathalie Daude

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Serene Wohlgemuth

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ekaterina Rogaeva

Affiliation Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A. Hossein Farid

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada

Mike Heaton

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, U. S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Nebraska, United States of America

David Westaway

david.westaway@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ND DW. Performed the experiments: ND SW. Analyzed the data: ND. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ER AHF MH. Wrote the paper: ND DW.