About the Authors

Thaise Pinto de Melo

Contributed equally to this work with: Thaise Pinto de Melo, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Roberto Carvalheiro

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, School of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, FCAV/ UNESP – Sao Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo

Contributed equally to this work with: Thaise Pinto de Melo, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Roberto Carvalheiro

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque

Contributed equally to this work with: Thaise Pinto de Melo, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Roberto Carvalheiro

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, School of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, FCAV/ UNESP – Sao Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brasília, DF, Brazil

Roberto Carvalheiro

Contributed equally to this work with: Thaise Pinto de Melo, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Roberto Carvalheiro

rcar@fcav.unesp.br

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, School of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, FCAV/ UNESP – Sao Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brasília, DF, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TPM RC. Data curation: TPM RC. Formal analysis: TPM RC. Investigation: TPM. Methodology: RC. Project administration: RC. Resources: TPM LGA. Software: RC. Supervision: RC LGA. Visualization: RC TPM LGA GMFC. Writing – original draft: RC TPM. Writing – review & editing: TPM RC LGA GMFC.