About the Authors

Iulia Blaj

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

iblaj@tierzucht.uni-kiel.de

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Jens Tetens

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Functional Breeding Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany

Siegfried Preuß

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry and Breeding, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Jörn Bennewitz

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry and Breeding, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Georg Thaller

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.