About the Authors

Zohre Yousefi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Agricultural Science and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Ahvaz, Iran

Mohammad Hossein Moradi

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

Hoseinmoradi@ut.ac.ir, h-moradi@araku.ac.ir

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resources, Arak University, Arak, Iran, Department of Animal Science, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Mohammad Taghi Beige-Nasiri

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Agricultural Science and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Ahvaz, Iran

Masoud Shirali

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Hillsborough, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Rostam Abdollahi-Arpanahi

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests.