About the Authors

Ulla Renne

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulla Renne, Martina Langhammer

Affiliation Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Martina Langhammer

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulla Renne, Martina Langhammer

Affiliation Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Julia Brenmoehl

Affiliations Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany, Cell Signaling Unit, Institute for Genome Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Christina Walz

Affiliations Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany, Cell Signaling Unit, Institute for Genome Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Anja Zeissler

Affiliations Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany, Cell Signaling Unit, Institute for Genome Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Armin Tuchscherer

Affiliation Livestock Genetics and Breeding Unit, Institute for Genetics & Biometry, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Marion Piechotta

Affiliation Clinic for Cattle, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Rudolf J. Wiesner

Affiliations Center for Physiology and Pathophysiology, Institute of Vegetative Physiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Maximilian Bielohuby

Affiliation Endocrine Research Unit, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Universität, Munich, Germany

Andreas Hoeflich

hoeflich@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Affiliations Laboratory for Mouse Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany, Cell Signaling Unit, Institute for Genome Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UR ML JB CW AZ RW AT MB AH. Performed the experiments: UR ML JB CW AZ AT MP RW MB. Analyzed the data: UR ML JB CW AZ RW AT MB AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UR ML JB CW AZ RW MB AH. Wrote the paper: UR ML AH.