About the Authors

Annik Imogen Gmel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

annik.gmel@agroscope.admin.ch

Affiliations Agroscope–Swiss National Stud Farm, Avenches, Switzerland, Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Thomas Druml

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Veterinary University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Katrin Portele

Roles Formal analysis

Current address: Messerli–Research Institute, Veterinary University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Affiliations Agroscope–Swiss National Stud Farm, Avenches, Switzerland, Equine Sciences Faculty, Veterinary University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Rudolf von Niederhäusern

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Agroscope–Swiss National Stud Farm, Avenches, Switzerland

Markus Neuditschko

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Agroscope–Swiss National Stud Farm, Avenches, Switzerland, Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Veterinary University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.