About the Authors

Sandra Soto-Heras

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Irene Menéndez-Blanco

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Maria-Gracia Catalá

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Dolors Izquierdo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Jeremy G. Thompson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Robinson Research Institute, School of Paedriatics and Reproductive Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Adelaide Medical School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, Davies Research Centre, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Maria-Teresa Paramio

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

teresa.paramio@uab.cat

Affiliation Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

JGT is the founder of ART Lab Solutions Pty Ltd, which manufactures bovine IVF media. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare they have no conflicts of interest.