About the Authors

Natalia Bocharova

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Bocharova, Gabriele Treu, Gábor Árpád Czirják

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Gabriele Treu

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Bocharova, Gabriele Treu, Gábor Árpád Czirják

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Gábor Árpád Czirják

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Bocharova, Gabriele Treu, Gábor Árpád Czirják

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Oliver Krone

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Volker Stefanski

Affiliation Behaviorial Physiology of Farm Animals, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Gudrun Wibbelt

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Páll Hersteinsson

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Gereon Schares

Affiliation Institute for Epidemiology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Wusterhausen, Germany

Lilia Doronina

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Mikhail Goltsman

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Alex D. Greenwood

greenwood@izw-berlin.de

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB GT GAC OK MG ADG. Performed the experiments: NB GT GAC. Analyzed the data: NB GT GAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OK VS GW ERU PH GS LD MG. Wrote the paper: NB GT GAC MG ADG.