About the Authors

Inne Xhonneux

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Inne.Xhonneux@uantwerp.be

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Gamete Research Centre, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Waleed F. A. Marei

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Sciences, Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Gamete Research Centre, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Theriogenology, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Ben Meulders

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Gamete Research Centre, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Jens Slootmans

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biosystems, University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Merelbeke, Belgium

Isabel Pintelon

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Sciences, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Histology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, Antwerp Centre for Advanced Microscopy (ACAM), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Jo L. M. R. Leroy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Sciences, Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Gamete Research Centre, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.