About the Authors

Marc Maserati

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc Maserati, Melanie Walentuk, Xiangpeng Dai

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Melanie Walentuk

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc Maserati, Melanie Walentuk, Xiangpeng Dai

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiangpeng Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc Maserati, Melanie Walentuk, Xiangpeng Dai

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Olivia Holston

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Danielle Adams

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jesse Mager

jmager@vasci.umass.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

This work was supported in part by the Massachusetts Life Science Center, a “quasi-public agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts”. This did not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM. Performed the experiments: MM MW XD OH DA. Analyzed the data: MM MW OH JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM. Wrote the paper: MM MW JM.