About the Authors

Jin-Kyoung Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Kyoung Kim, Jeong-Min Kim, Byung-Hak Song

Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Jeong-Min Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Kyoung Kim, Jeong-Min Kim, Byung-Hak Song

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea

Byung-Hak Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Kyoung Kim, Jeong-Min Kim, Byung-Hak Song

Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Sang-Im Yun

Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Gil-Nam Yun

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea

Sung-June Byun

Affiliation Animal Biotechnology Division, Korea National Institute of Animal Science, Suwon, South Korea

Young-Min Lee

youngmin.lee@usu.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SIY YML. Performed the experiments: JKK JMK BHS SIY GNY. Analyzed the data: JKK JMK BHS SIY GNY YML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJB. Wrote the paper: SIY YML.