About the Authors

Christopher M. Seabury

cseabury@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Eric K. Bhattarai

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jeremy F. Taylor

Affiliation Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Ganesh G. Viswanathan

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Susan M. Cooper

Affiliation Texas AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University System, Uvalde, Texas, United States of America

Donald S. Davis

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Scot E. Dowd

Affiliation Research and Testing Laboratories, SpiroStat Technologies, Medical Biofilm Research Institute, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Mitch L. Lockwood

Affiliation Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Kerrville, Texas, United States of America

Paul M. Seabury

Affiliation ElanTech, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Paul M. Seabury of ElanTech, Inc. is an unpaid collaborator who engineers and deploys custom scripts for genomics research. Custom scripts are situationally relevant to research and input files presented herein, and do not represent universal (commercial) software packages. Nevertheless, the scripts are available upon request, and the authors' affiliation with ElanTech, Inc. does not interfere with PLoS ONE policies on sharing data or materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMS. Performed the experiments: CMS EKB SED. Analyzed the data: CMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFT GGV SMC DSD MLL PMS. Wrote the manuscript: CMS. Engineered custom scripts: PMS GGV. Provided bovine mitochondrial SNP data: JFT. Provided DNA: SMC DSD MLL PMS. Provided functional annotation data: SED. Engineered custom scripts for data compilation: PMS GGV. Provided bovine mitochondrial polymorphism data: JFT. Participated in SNP validation study: JFT.