About the Authors

Michaela Prchal-Murphy

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Christian Semper

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Caroline Lassnig

Affiliations Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, Biomodels Austria, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Barbara Wallner

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Christian Gausterer

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Ingeborg Teppner-Klymiuk

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Julianna Kobolak

Affiliation Genetic Reprogramming Group Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllö, Hungary

Simone Müller

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Kolbe

Affiliations Biomodels Austria, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, Department for Agrobiotechnology IFA Tulln, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Marina Karaghiosoff

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Andras Dinnyés

Affiliations Genetic Reprogramming Group Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllö, Hungary, Molecular Animal Biotechnology Laboratory, Szent Istvan University, Gödöllö, Hungary, BioTalentum Ltd., Gödöllö, Hungary

Thomas Rülicke

Affiliations Biomodels Austria, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Nicole R. Leitner

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Birgit Strobl

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Mathias Müller

mathias.mueller@vetmeduni.ac.at

Affiliations Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, Biomodels Austria, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The role of BioTalentum Ltd. in this study was the project management of the European Research EU FP6 projects. The company is in no way involved in patents, products and development or marketed products related to the work presented here. The authors are thus able to adhere fully to all the PloS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK BS MM. Performed the experiments: MPM CS CL JK BW CG ITK. Analyzed the data: MPM CS BW BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ITK SM AD TR TK. Wrote the paper: NRL BS MM.