About the Authors

Mario Barbato

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

mario.barbato@unicatt.it (MB); paolo.ajmone@unicatt.it (PAM)

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Food and Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

Michael P. Reichel

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Matilde Passamonti

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Food and Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

Wai Yee Low

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Davies Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, Australia

Licia Colli

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, Food and Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy, Research Center on Biodiversity and Ancient DNA–BioDNA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

Rick Tearle

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Davies Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, Australia

John L. Williams

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

Affiliation School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Davies Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, Australia

Paolo Ajmone Marsan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mario.barbato@unicatt.it (MB); paolo.ajmone@unicatt.it (PAM)

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, Food and Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy, Research Center on Biodiversity and Ancient DNA–BioDNA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.