About the Authors

Nandina Paria

Contributed equally to this work with: Nandina Paria, Terje Raudsepp

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Terje Raudsepp

Contributed equally to this work with: Nandina Paria, Terje Raudsepp

BChowdhary@cvm.tamu.edu (BPC); TRaudsepp@cvm.tamu.edu (TR)

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Alison J. Pearks Wilkerson

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Patricia C. M. O'Brien

Affiliation Centre for Veterinary Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Malcom A. Ferguson-Smith

Affiliation Centre for Veterinary Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Charles C. Love

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Carolyn Arnold

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Peter Rakestraw

Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

William J. Murphy

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Bhanu P. Chowdhary

BChowdhary@cvm.tamu.edu (BPC); TRaudsepp@cvm.tamu.edu (TR)

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BPC TR WJM. Performed the experiments: NP TR AJPW. Analyzed the data: NP TR WJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PCMO MAF-S CCL CA PR. Wrote the paper: TR NP BPC WJM.