About the Authors

Valdir Chiogna Junior

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Jataí, GO, Brazil

Fernanda Lopes

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Adisseo South America, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Charles George Schwab

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Schwab Consulting LLC, Boscobel, WI, United States of America

Mateus Zucato Toledo

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States of America

Edgar Alain Collao-Saenz

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

edgar_collao_saenz@ufg.br

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Jataí, GO, Brazil

Competing Interests

Dr. Fernanda Lopes is an employee of Adisseo SA Inc. and Dr. Charles G. Schwab works for Schwab Consulting LLC. Other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.