About the Authors

Samir Bachir Souheil Gaouar

Contributed equally to this work with: Samir Bachir Souheil Gaouar, Anne Da Silva

Affiliations Department of Biology, Aboubakr Belkaid Tlemcen University, Tlemcen, Algeria, Molecular and Cellular Laboratory (USTOM), University of Sciences and Technology, Mohamed Boudiaf, Oran, Algeria

Anne Da Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Samir Bachir Souheil Gaouar, Anne Da Silva

anne.blondeau@unilim.fr

Affiliations INRA, UMR1061 Génétique Moléculaire Animale, Limoges, France, Université de Limoges, UMR1061 Génétique Moléculaire Animale, Limoges, France

Elena Ciani

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Samia Kdidi

Affiliations Livestock and Wildlife Laboratory, Arid Lands Institute Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia, Laboratory of Genetics, Immunology and Human Pathology, Faculty of Sciences, Tunis-El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia

Miloud Aouissat

Affiliation Technical Institute of Breeding (ITElv) of Aïn El-Hadjar, Saïda, Algeria

Laziz Dhimi

Affiliation Technical Institute of Breeding (ITElv) of Aïn M’lila, Constantine, Algeria

Mohamed Lafri

Affiliation Laboratoire des Biotechnologies liées à la Reproduction Animale (LBRA) Université de Blida, Blida, Algérie

Abderrahman Maftah

Affiliations INRA, UMR1061 Génétique Moléculaire Animale, Limoges, France, Université de Limoges, UMR1061 Génétique Moléculaire Animale, Limoges, France

Nadhira Mehtar

Affiliation Department of Biology, Aboubakr Belkaid Tlemcen University, Tlemcen, Algeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBSG ADS SK MA LD. Performed the experiments: SBSG ADS. Analyzed the data: SBSG ADS EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBSG ADS ML AM NM. Wrote the paper: SBSG EC ADS.