About the Authors
- Dessie Salilew-Wondim
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* E-mail: dsal@itw.uni-bonn.de
Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Eric Fournier
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Affiliation Centre de recherche en biologie de la reproduction, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, INAF, Pavillon des services, Université Laval (Québec), Canada G1V 0A6
- Michael Hoelker
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Mohammed Saeed-Zidane
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Ernst Tholen
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Christian Looft
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Christiane Neuhoff
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Urban Besenfelder
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, A-1210, Vienna, Austria
- Vita Havlicek
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, A-1210, Vienna, Austria
- Franca Rings
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Dominic Gagné
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Affiliation Centre de recherche en biologie de la reproduction, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, INAF, Pavillon des services, Université Laval (Québec), Canada G1V 0A6
- Marc-André Sirard
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Affiliation Centre de recherche en biologie de la reproduction, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, INAF, Pavillon des services, Université Laval (Québec), Canada G1V 0A6
- Claude Robert
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Affiliation Centre de recherche en biologie de la reproduction, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, INAF, Pavillon des services, Université Laval (Québec), Canada G1V 0A6
- Habib A. Shojaei Saadi
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Affiliation Centre de recherche en biologie de la reproduction, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, INAF, Pavillon des services, Université Laval (Québec), Canada G1V 0A6
- Ahmed Gad
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Affiliation Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, 12613, Giza, Egypt
- Karl Schellander
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Dawit Tesfaye
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KS DT DSW MH MAS CR. Performed the experiments: MH UB VH FR DSW MSZ DG HASS. Analyzed the data: EF DSW AG. Wrote the paper: DSW DT KS EF MAS HASS. Interpreted the results, drafted and wrote the manuscript: DSW. Interpreted the results and revised draft manuscript: KS DT. Evaluated the statistical interpretation and commented on the manuscript: EF. Commented on the manuscript: MAS ET CL CN CR HASS.