About the Authors

Nathan Lawless

Affiliations Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Amir B. K. Foroushani

Affiliations Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Matthew S. McCabe

Affiliation Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland

Cliona O’Farrelly

Affiliation School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

David J. Lynn

david.lynn@teagasc.ie

Affiliation Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL DJL. Performed the experiments: NL MM. Analyzed the data: NL AF COF DJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL DJL. Wrote the paper: NL COF DJL.