About the Authors

Michael Oster

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Oster, Mathias Scheel

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, Dummerstorf, Germany

Mathias Scheel

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Oster, Mathias Scheel

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, Dummerstorf, Germany

Eduard Muráni

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, Dummerstorf, Germany

Siriluck Ponsuksili

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, Dummerstorf, Germany

Manuela Zebunke

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Behavioural Physiology, Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, Dummerstorf, Germany

Birger Puppe

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Behavioural Physiology, Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, Dummerstorf, Germany

Klaus Wimmers

wimmers@fbn-dummerstorf.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Institute for Genome Biology, Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KW. Performed the experiments: MO MS. Analyzed the data: MO EM SP BP MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS SP BP MZ KW. Wrote the paper: MO BP MZ KW.