About the Authors

Cian Reid

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Animal & Bioscience Research Department, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Co Meath, Ireland, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

John Donlon

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliations Animal & Bioscience Research Department, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Grange, Co Meath, Ireland, School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Aude Remot

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INRAE, Université de Tours, Nouzilly, France

Emer Kennedy

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland

Giovanna De Matteis

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, CREA-ZA, Italy

Cliona O’Farrelly

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Conor McAloon

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Kieran G. Meade

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kieran.meade@ucd.ie

Affiliations School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, Institute of Food and Health, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.