About the Authors

Mohammed A. Alfattah

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

Current address: Department of Biology, College of Science, Jazan University, Jizan, Saudi Arabia

Affiliations UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Carolina N. Correia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

John A. Browne

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Paul A. McGettigan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Katarzyna Pluta

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Stephen D. Carrington

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

Affiliation UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

David E. MacHugh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Jane A. Irwin

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

jane.irwin@ucd.ie

Affiliation UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.