About the Authors

Theofilos Poutahidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Theofilos Poutahidis, Alex Springer

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Alex Springer

Contributed equally to this work with: Theofilos Poutahidis, Alex Springer

Affiliations Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tatiana Levkovich

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peimin Qi

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bernard J. Varian

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessica R. Lakritz

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yassin M. Ibrahim

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Antonis Chatzigiagkos

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Eric J. Alm

ejalm@mit.edu (EJA); serdman@mit.edu (SEE)

Affiliations Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan E. Erdman

ejalm@mit.edu (EJA); serdman@mit.edu (SEE)

Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TP EJA SEE. Performed the experiments: AS TL TP PQ BJV YMI JRL SEE. Analyzed the data: TP PQ AC EJA SEE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP PQ EJA SEE. Wrote the paper: TP AS EJA SEE.