About the Authors

Elke Albrecht

Affiliation Research Unit Muscle Biology and Growth, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Katrin Komolka

Affiliation Research Unit Muscle Biology and Growth, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Judith Kuzinski

Affiliation Research Unit Muscle Biology and Growth, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Steffen Maak

maak@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Affiliation Research Unit Muscle Biology and Growth, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM EA. Performed the experiments: EA KK JK. Analyzed the data: EA SM KK JK. Wrote the paper: SM EA KK JK.