About the Authors

K. M. Moyes

kmoyes@umd.edu (KMM); massimo.bionaz@oregonstate.edu (MB)

Affiliation Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

P. Sørensen

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8830 Tjele, Denmark

M. Bionaz

kmoyes@umd.edu (KMM); massimo.bionaz@oregonstate.edu (MB)

Affiliation Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS. Performed the experiments: PS. Analyzed the data: KMM MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS. Wrote the paper: KMM PS MB.