About the Authors

Andrea Brenes-Soto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

brenes.andrea14@gmail.com

Affiliations Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium, Animal Science Department, University of Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, San José, Costa Rica

Ellen S. Dierenfeld

Contributed equally to this work with: Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Geert P. J. Janssens

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ellen S. Dierenfeld, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Geert P. J. Janssens

Contributed equally to this work with: Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Geert P. J. Janssens

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Ellen S. Dierenfeld is affiliated to Ellen S. Dierenfeld, LLC. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.