About the Authors

Katie Smith

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ximin Zeng

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jun Lin

jlin6@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS XZ JL. Performed the experiments: KS XZ JL. Analyzed the data: KS XZ JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL. Wrote the paper: KS JL.