About the Authors

Takahiro Aoki

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

aokit@obihiro.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan

Megumi Itoh

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan

Akiko Chiba

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Japan

Masayoshi Kuwahara

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathophysiology and Animal Health, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hirofumi Nogami

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Hiroshi Ishizaki

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Grassland Farming, Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Nasushiobara, Japan

Ken-Ichi Yayou

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

Affiliation Division of Animal Environment and Waste Management Research, Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.