About the Authors

Yupeng Wang

wyp1125@uga.edu

Affiliations Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Kelly R. Robbins

Affiliation Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Romdhane Rekaya

Affiliations Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW. Performed the experiments: YW. Analyzed the data: YW. Wrote the paper: YW KR RR.