About the Authors

Shumaila Arif

sarif@csu.edu.au

Affiliations School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Peter C. Thomson

Affiliations Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camden, New South Wales, Australia, ASLP Dairy Project, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Marta Hernandez-Jover

Affiliations School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

David M. McGill

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Hassan Mahmood Warriach

Affiliation ASLP Dairy Project, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Jane Heller

Affiliations School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SA JH MHJ DM PT HMW. Data curation: SA PT JH MHJ DM HMW. Formal analysis: SA PT JH MHJ. Funding acquisition: DM HMW. Investigation: SA HMW DM. Methodology: SA JH MHJ DM PT. Project administration: SA. Resources: SA DM HMW. Software: SA PT JH MHJ. Supervision: JH PT MHJ. Validation: SA JH MHJ DM PT. Visualization: SA PT JH MHJ. Writing – original draft: SA. Writing – review & editing: JH PT MHJ DM HMW.