About the Authors

Ino Curik

Contributed equally to this work with: Ino Curik, Johann Sölkner

icurik@agr.hr (IC); johann.soelkner@boku.ac.at(JS)

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Thomas Druml

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Monika Seltenhammer

Affiliation Department of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Elisabeth Sundström

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Gerli Rosengren Pielberg

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Leif Andersson

Affiliations Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Johann Sölkner

Contributed equally to this work with: Ino Curik, Johann Sölkner

icurik@agr.hr (IC); johann.soelkner@boku.ac.at(JS)

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IC JS. Performed the experiments: MS IC JS TD ES GRP LA. Analyzed the data: TD IC JS. Wrote the paper: IC JS.