About the Authors

M. Sofia Ortega

Current address: Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, D.H. Barron Reproductive and Perinatal Biology Research Program and Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Justin J. Kurian

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Robert McKenna

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Peter J. Hansen

pjhansen@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, D.H. Barron Reproductive and Perinatal Biology Research Program and Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MSO PJH. Data curation: MSO PJH. Formal analysis: MSO JJK RM PJH. Funding acquisition: PJH. Investigation: MSO. Methodology: MSO JJK RM. Project administration: PJH. Resources: RM PJH. Supervision: RM PJH. Validation: PJH. Visualization: MSO JJK PJH. Writing – original draft: MSO. Writing – review & editing: MSO JJK RM PJH.