About the Authors

Ilma Tapio

Affiliation Green Technology, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Jokioinen, Finland

Kevin J. Shingfield

Current address: Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

Affiliation Green Technology, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Jokioinen, Finland

Nest McKain

Affiliation Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Aurélie Bonin

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS, Grenoble, France

Daniel Fischer

Affiliation Green Technology, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Jokioinen, Finland

Ali R. Bayat

Affiliation Green Technology, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Jokioinen, Finland

Johanna Vilkki

Affiliation Green Technology, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Jokioinen, Finland

Pierre Taberlet

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS, Grenoble, France

Timothy J. Snelling

Affiliation Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

R. John Wallace

john.wallace@abdn.ac.uk

Affiliation Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJW KJS JV. Performed the experiments: IT ARB. Analyzed the data: IT AB PT TJS NM DF RJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JV. Wrote the paper: RJW KJS IT JV TJS PT.