About the Authors

Wen Huang

Affiliation Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Asif Nadeem

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Bao Zhang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Masroor Babar

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Morris Soller

Affiliation Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Hasan Khatib

hkhatib@wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH HK. Performed the experiments: BZ AN WH. Analyzed the data: WH MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AN MB. Wrote the paper: WH HK.