About the Authors

Bruno Tilocca

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Maren Witzig

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Markus Rodehutscord

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Jana Seifert

jseifert@uni-hohenheim.de

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JS MR. Data curation: BT. Formal analysis: BT. Funding acquisition: JS MR. Investigation: BT MW JS. Methodology: BT JS. Project administration: JS MR. Resources: JS MR. Supervision: JS MR. Validation: BT JS. Visualization: BT. Writing – original draft: BT JS. Writing – review & editing: BT MW MR JS.