About the Authors

Anna Slawinska

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Animal Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland

John C. Hsieh

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Carl J. Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Susan J. Lamont

sjlamont@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AS SJL. Formal analysis: AS JCH. Funding acquisition: CJS SJL. Investigation: AS. Methodology: AS. Project administration: SJL. Resources: CJS SJL. Software: JCH. Supervision: SJL. Visualization: AS JCH. Writing – original draft: AS. Writing – review & editing: AS SJL JCH CJS.