About the Authors

Mahdieh Mehdipour

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Hossein Daghigh Kia

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

daghighkia@tabrizu.ac.ir, hdk6955@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Abouzar Najafi

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Science, College of Aburaihan, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Hossein Mohammadi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Current address: Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Arak University, Arak, Iran

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Manuel Álvarez-Rodriguez

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical & Clinical Sciences (BKV), BKH/Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.