About the Authors

Arianna Manunza

Contributed equally to this work with: Arianna Manunza, Ali Zidi

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Ali Zidi

Contributed equally to this work with: Arianna Manunza, Ali Zidi

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Seryozha Yeghoyan

Affiliation Armenian State Agrarian University, Yerevan, Armenia

Valentin Adrian Balteanu

Affiliation Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Regional Laboratory for Animals Genotyping, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania

Teodora Crina Carsai

Affiliation Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Regional Laboratory for Animals Genotyping, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania

Oleg Scherbakov

Affiliation Armenian State Agrarian University, Yerevan, Armenia

Oscar Ramírez

Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra-CSIC), CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Spain

Shahin Eghbalsaied

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Khorasgan (Isfahan) branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Anna Castelló

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Anna Mercadé

Affiliation Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Marcel Amills

Marcel.Amills@uab.cat

Affiliations Department of Animal Genetics, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Amills VB SY. Performed the experiments: AZ A. Mercadé AC OR. Analyzed the data: A. Manunza. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TCC SE OS. Wrote the paper: M. Amills.