About the Authors

Sandra Milena Bernal-Ulloa

Affiliations Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Biotechnology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Mariensee, Germany, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales, Bogotá, Colombia

Julia Heinzmann

Affiliation Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Biotechnology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Mariensee, Germany

Doris Herrmann

Affiliation Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Biotechnology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Mariensee, Germany

Klaus-Gerd Hadeler

Affiliation Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Biotechnology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Mariensee, Germany

Patrick Aldag

Affiliation Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Biotechnology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Mariensee, Germany

Sylke Winkler

Affiliation DNA Sequencing Facility, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Dorit Pache

Affiliation DNA Sequencing Facility, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Ulrich Baulain

Affiliation Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Biotechnology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Mariensee, Germany

Andrea Lucas-Hahn

Affiliation Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Biotechnology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Mariensee, Germany

Heiner Niemann

heiner.niemann@fli.bund.de

Affiliation Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Biotechnology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Mariensee, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMBU JH ALH HN. Performed the experiments: SMBU JH DH KGH PA SW DP. Analyzed the data: UB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW DP HN. Wrote the paper: SMBU DH ALH HN.