About the Authors

María Muñoz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Departamento Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain

Riccardo Bozzi

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Fabián García

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain

Yolanda Núñez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain

Claudia Geraci

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Alessandro Crovetti

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Juan García-Casco

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain

Estefania Alves

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain

Martin Škrlep

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kmetijski inštitut Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Rui Charneca

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM), Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

Jose M. Martins

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM), Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

Raquel Quintanilla

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programa de Genética y Mejora Animal, IRTA, Barcelona, Spain

Joan Tibau

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programa de Genética y Mejora Animal, IRTA, Barcelona, Spain

Goran Kušec

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Osijek, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences, Osijek, Croatia

Ivona Djurkin-Kušec

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Osijek, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences, Osijek, Croatia

Marie J. Mercat

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut du Porc, IFIP, Le Rheu, France

Juliette Riquet

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Génétique Physiologie et Système d’Elevage, INRA, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Jordi Estellé

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation GABI, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Christoph Zimmer

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bäuerliche Erzeugergemeinschaft Schwäbisch Hall, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

Violeta Razmaite

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Science Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Baisogala, Lithuania

Jose P. Araujo

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Čedomir Radović

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Animal Husbandry-Pig Research Department, Belgrade-Zemun, Serbia

Radomir Savić

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Belgrade, Faculty of agriculture, Belgrade-Zemun, Serbia

Danijel Karolyi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of animal science, Faculty of agriculture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Maurizio Gallo

Roles Resources

Affiliation Associazione Nazionale Allevatori Suini (ANAS), Roma, Italy

Marjeta Čandek-Potokar

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kmetijski inštitut Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Luca Fontanesi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Ana I. Fernández

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain

Cristina Óvilo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

ovilo@inia.es

Affiliation Departamento Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist, excepting that the corresponding author Cristina Óvilo is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. However, this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies.