About the Authors

Constance Nebendahl

Affiliation Institute of Nutritional Physiology ‘Oskar Kellner’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Ricarda Krüger

Affiliation Institute of Nutritional Physiology ‘Oskar Kellner’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Solvig Görs

Affiliation Institute of Nutritional Physiology ‘Oskar Kellner’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Elke Albrecht

Affiliation Institute of Muscle Biology and Growth, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Karen Martens

Affiliation Institute of Nutritional Physiology ‘Oskar Kellner’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Steffen Hennig

Affiliation ImaGenes GmbH, 13125 Berlin, Germany

Niels Storm

Affiliation Bioglobe GmbH, 22529 Hamburg, Germany

Wolfgang Höppner

Affiliation Bioglobe GmbH, 22529 Hamburg, Germany

Ralf Pfuhl

Affiliation Institute of Muscle Biology and Growth, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli

Affiliation Institute of Nutritional Physiology ‘Oskar Kellner’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Harald M. Hammon

Affiliation Institute of Nutritional Physiology ‘Oskar Kellner’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Cornelia C. Metges

metges@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Affiliation Institute of Nutritional Physiology ‘Oskar Kellner’, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

Steffen Hennig was employed by ImaGenes GmbH at the time of microarray analysis. Niels Storm and Wolfgang Höppner are employed by Bioglobe GmbH. ImaGenes GmbH performed microarray experiments. Bioglobe GmbH was responsible for CpG-methylation analysis. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CCM CN HMH. Performed the experiments: RK CN SG EA BUMZ KM NS WH RP. Analyzed the data: SH CN NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EA SH CN NS. Wrote the paper: CN.