About the Authors
- Kyriakos Tsangaras
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kyriakos Tsangaras, Matthew C. Siracusa, Nikolas Nikolaidis
Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
- Matthew C. Siracusa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kyriakos Tsangaras, Matthew C. Siracusa, Nikolas Nikolaidis
Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Center for Applied Biotechnology Studies, California State University, Fullerton, California, United States of America
- Nikolas Nikolaidis
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kyriakos Tsangaras, Matthew C. Siracusa, Nikolas Nikolaidis
Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Center for Applied Biotechnology Studies, California State University, Fullerton, California, United States of America
- Yasuko Ishida
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Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Pin Cui
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Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Center for Applied Biotechnology Studies, California State University, Fullerton, California, United States of America
- Hanna Vielgrader
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Affiliation Zoo Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Kristofer M. Helgen
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Affiliation National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Alfred L. Roca
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Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Alex D. Greenwood
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* E-mail: greenwood@izw-berlin.de
Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Center for Applied Biotechnology Studies, California State University, Fullerton, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
NS and AR are PLoS ONE Editorial Board members. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLoS ONE editorial policies and criteria.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KT NN ALR ADG. Performed the experiments: KT MCS NN YI. Analyzed the data: KT MCS NN PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HV KMH. Wrote the paper: KT NN ALR ADG.