About the Authors

Siriluck Ponsuksili

Affiliation Research Group ‘Functional Genome Analysis’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Eduard Murani

Affiliation Research Unit ‘Molecular Biology’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Manfred Schwerin

Affiliation Research Group ‘Functional Genome Analysis’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Karl Schellander

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Dawit Tesfaye

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Klaus Wimmers

wimmers@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Affiliation Research Unit ‘Molecular Biology’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP DT KS KW. Performed the experiments: SP DT. Analyzed the data: SP EM MS KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP DT KS. Wrote the paper: SP KW.