About the Authors

Samara S. Souza

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Diagnostic Imaging Applied to Animal Reproduction, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

Benner G. Alves

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Manipulation of Oocytes and Preantral Follicles, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

Kele A. Alves

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Manipulation of Oocytes and Preantral Follicles, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

Fabiana A. S. Brandão

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Diagnostic Imaging Applied to Animal Reproduction, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

Danielle C. C. Brito

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Manipulation of Oocytes and Preantral Follicles, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

Melba O. Gastal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Ana P. R. Rodrigues

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Laboratory of Manipulation of Oocytes and Preantral Follicles, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

José R. Figueireod

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Manipulation of Oocytes and Preantral Follicles, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

Dárcio I. A. Teixeira

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Diagnostic Imaging Applied to Animal Reproduction, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

Eduardo L. Gastal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

egastal@siu.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of the research reported.