About the Authors

Danika Bannasch

dlbannasch@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Amy Young

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jeffrey Myers

Affiliation Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Katarina Truvé

Affiliation Biomedical Centre, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Peter Dickinson

Affiliation Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jeffrey Gregg

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Ryan Davis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Eric Bongcam-Rudloff

Affiliation Biomedical Centre, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Matthew T. Webster

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Niels Pedersen

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB. Performed the experiments: DB AY JM. Analyzed the data: DB KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT PD JPG RD EBR MTW KLT NP. Wrote the paper: DB AY KLT.