About the Authors

Saber Qanbari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

sqanbar@gwdg.de

Affiliations Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Animal Biotechnology, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran

Carl-Johan Rubin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Khurram Maqbool

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Steffen Weigend

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliations Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt, Germany, Center for Integrated Breeding Research, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Annett Weigend

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt, Germany

Johannes Geibel

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Center for Integrated Breeding Research, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Susanne Kerje

Roles Validation

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

Christine Wurmser

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Chair of Animal Breeding, Technical University Munich, Freising, Germany

Andrew Townsend Peterson

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

I. Lehr Brisbin Jr.

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Ruedi Preisinger

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH, Cuxhaven, Germany

Ruedi Fries

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Chair of Animal Breeding, Technical University Munich, Freising, Germany

Henner Simianer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Center for Integrated Breeding Research, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Leif Andersson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.