About the Authors

Rebecca R. Bellone

rbellone@ut.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Heather Holl

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Vijayasaradhi Setaluri

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sulochana Devi

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Nityanand Maddodi

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sheila Archer

Affiliation Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada

Lynne Sandmeyer

Affiliation Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Arne Ludwig

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

Daniel Foerster

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

Melanie Pruvost

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany, Epigenomic and Palaeogenomic Group, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France

Monika Reissmann

Affiliation Department of Breeding Biology and Molecular Genetics, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ralf Bortfeldt

Affiliation Department of Breeding Biology and Molecular Genetics, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

David L. Adelson

Affiliation School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, the University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Sim Lin Lim

Affiliation School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, the University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Janelle Nelson

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Bianca Haase

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Martina Engensteiner

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tosso Leeb

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

George Forsyth

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Michael J. Mienaltowski

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Padmanabhan Mahadevan

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Michael Hofreiter

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of York, York, United Kingdom

Johanna L. A. Paijmans

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of York, York, United Kingdom

Gloria Gonzalez-Fortes

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of York, York, United Kingdom

Bruce Grahn

Affiliation Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Samantha A. Brooks

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Prepared the manuscript with contribution and input from all authors: RRB. Conceived and designed the experiments: RRB SA GF SAB VS SD NM DLA SLL AL MP DF RB MH JP GG MR. Performed the experiments: RRB GF MJM VS SD NM LS BG SA BH ME TL JN DLA SLL AL MP DF RB MH JP GG MR PM. Analyzed the data: RRB SAB HH VS SD NM DLA SLL AL MP DF RB MH JP GG MR PM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RRB SA GF MJM LS BG ME TL AL MR PM. Wrote the manuscript: RRB.