About the Authors

Alison Lacombe

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, The University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Robert W. Li

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture ARS, BARC, Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Dorothy Klimis-Zacas

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, The University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Aleksandra S. Kristo

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, The University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Shravani Tadepalli

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, The University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Emily Krauss

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, The University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Ryan Young

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Vivian C. H. Wu

vivian.wu@umit.maine.edu

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, The University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VCW RWL AL. Performed the experiments: AL RWL DK ASK ST EK RY VCW. Analyzed the data: AL RWL. Wrote the paper: AL VCW.