About the Authors

Robert M. Christley

robc@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliations Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Neston, Cheshire, United Kingdom, National Consortium for Zoonosis Research, Neston, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Maggie Mort

Affiliation Department of Sociology and School of Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Brian Wynne

Affiliation Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Jonathan M. Wastling

Affiliation Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Neston, Cheshire, United Kingdom

A. Louise Heathwaite

Affiliation Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Roger Pickup

Affiliation Biomedical and Life Sciences Division, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Zoë Austin

Current address: Environment Department, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Affiliation Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Sophia M. Latham

Affiliations Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Neston, Cheshire, United Kingdom, National Consortium for Zoonosis Research, Neston, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC MM BW. Performed the experiments: RC. Analyzed the data: RC MM BW JW ALH RP ZA SL. Wrote the paper: RC MM.