About the Authors

Hugues Guyot

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Animal Production, Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals and Health, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

Johann Detilleux

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Animal Production, Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals and Health, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

Pascal Lebreton

Affiliation NBVC, Early Health Indicators, Dardilly, France

Catherine Garnier

Affiliation IODOLAB, Marcy l’Etoile, France

Marie Bonvoisin

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Animal Production, Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals and Health, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

Frederic Rollin

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Animal Production, Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals and Health, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

Charlotte Sandersen

Charlotte.sandersen@ulg.ac.be

Affiliations Department of Sustainable Animal Production, Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals and Health, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium, Department of Comparative Veterinary Medicine; Fundamental and Applied Research for Animals and Health, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PL is employee of the laboratory NBVC, CG is employee of the laboratory IODOLAB. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors report no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HG JD FR CS. Data curation: HG JD PL CG MB FR CS. Formal analysis: HG JD FR CS. Funding acquisition: HG FR. Investigation: HG JD PL CG MB FR CS. Methodology: HG JD FR CS. Project administration: HG FR. Resources: HG JD PL CG MB FR CS. Supervision: HG FR CS. Validation: HG FR CS. Visualization: HG FR CS. Writing – original draft: HG MB FR CS. Writing – review & editing: HG JD FR CS.