About the Authors

Alfreda Wei

awei@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Andrea J. Fascetti

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kyoungmi Kim

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Ada Lee

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

James L. Graham

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Peter J. Havel

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jon J. Ramsey

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW AJF JJR. Performed the experiments: AW AL JLG. Analyzed the data: AW KK AL JLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJF KK PJH JJR. Wrote the paper: AW AJF KK AL JLG PJH JJR.