About the Authors

Muthannan A. Ramakrishnan

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Zheng Jin Tu

Affiliation Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Sushmita Singh

Affiliation Biomedical Genomics Center, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Ashok K. Chockalingam

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Marie R. Gramer

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Ping Wang

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Sagar M. Goyal

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

My Yang

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

David A. Halvorson

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Srinand Sreevatsan

sreev001@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAR SMG DH SS. Performed the experiments: MAR SS AKC PW MY. Analyzed the data: MAR ZJT SS AKC MRG PW SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRG SMG DH. Wrote the paper: MAR ZJT SS MRG PW SMG MY SS.