About the Authors

Marcel Adler

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Eduard Murani

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Ronald Brunner

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Siriluck Ponsuksili

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Research Group Functional Genome Analysis, Dummerstorf, Germany

Klaus Wimmers

wimmers@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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