About the Authors

Michelle M. Stafford

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Teagasc Grange, Meath, Ireland, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Paul E. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Teagasc Grange, Meath, Ireland

Sinead M. Waters

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, University Rd, Galway, Ireland

Frank Buckley

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Steven McLoughlin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Stuart F. Kirwan

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Teagasc Grange, Meath, Ireland

Eoin O’Hara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Agricultural, Food, & Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Lethbridge, Canada

David A. Kenny

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* david.kenny@teagasc.ie

Affiliation Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Teagasc Grange, Meath, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.