About the Authors

Andreas Handel

ahandel@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Justin Brown

Affiliation Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

David Stallknecht

Affiliation Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Pejman Rohani

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH PR. Performed the experiments: AH. Analyzed the data: AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB DS PR. Wrote the paper: AH PR.