About the Authors

Autumn M. McKnite

Contributed equally to this work with: Autumn M. McKnite, Maria Elisa Perez-Munoz

Affiliation Animal Science Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Maria Elisa Perez-Munoz

Contributed equally to this work with: Autumn M. McKnite, Maria Elisa Perez-Munoz

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Lu Lu

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Evan G. Williams

Affiliation Laboratory for Integrative and Systems Physiology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Simon Brewer

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Pénélope A. Andreux

Affiliation Laboratory for Integrative and Systems Physiology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

John W. M. Bastiaansen

Affiliation Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Xusheng Wang

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Stephen D. Kachman

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Johan Auwerx

Affiliation Laboratory for Integrative and Systems Physiology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Robert W. Williams

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Andrew K. Benson

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Daniel A. Peterson

Affiliations Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Pathology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel C. Ciobanu

dciobanu2@unl.edu

Affiliation Animal Science Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC AB DP LL RW. Performed the experiments: DC AM JA LL EW PA. Analyzed the data: AM MPM SB JB XW SK AB DP DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC DP AB RW JA. Wrote the paper: DC AM MPM SB JA RW AB DP.