About the Authors
- Lindsey Chambers
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lindsey Chambers, Ying Yang, Heather Littier
Affiliation Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Ying Yang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lindsey Chambers, Ying Yang, Heather Littier
Affiliation University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Heather Littier
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lindsey Chambers, Ying Yang, Heather Littier
Affiliation Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Partha Ray
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Tong Zhang
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Amy Pruden
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Michael Strickland
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Katharine Knowlton
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* E-mail: kknowlto@vt.edu
Affiliation Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LC AP KK. Performed the experiments: LC HL. Analyzed the data: LC PR YY TZ MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP. Wrote the paper: LC KK AP MS YY TZ.