About the Authors

Katja Silbermayr

katja.silbermayr@vetmeduni.ac.at

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Vetmeduni Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Fuyong Li

Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Albert Soudré

Affiliation Division of Lifestock Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Simone Müller

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Vetmeduni Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Johann Sölkner

Affiliation Division of Lifestock Sciences, 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: KS FL SM. Performed the experiments: KS FL. Analyzed the data: KS AS JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS AS. Wrote the paper: KS FL JS.