About the Authors

Hillary Stires

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

Mariana Saboya

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

Samantha P. Globerman

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

Wendie S. Cohick

cohick@aesop.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS WSC. Performed the experiments: HS MS SPG WSC. Analyzed the data: HS WSC. Wrote the paper: HS MS WSC.