About the Authors

Reza Khalkhali-Evrigh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, Iran

Seyed Hasan Hafezian

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, Iran

Nemat Hedayat-Evrigh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

nhedayat@uma.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

Ayoub Farhadi

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, Iran

Mohammad Reza Bakhtiarizadeh

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

Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Science, College of Aburaihan, University of Tehran, Pakdasht, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exit.