About the Authors

Kasuni Karunarathne

Contributed equally to this work with: Kasuni Karunarathne, Saumya Poorni, Nethra Jayampathi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Saumya Poorni

Contributed equally to this work with: Kasuni Karunarathne, Saumya Poorni, Nethra Jayampathi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Nethra Jayampathi

Contributed equally to this work with: Kasuni Karunarathne, Saumya Poorni, Nethra Jayampathi

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Hasitha Dhananjaya

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Anju Hasintha

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Malinda Hulugalla

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Thilini A.N. Mahakapuge

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Nadeeka Nethmini

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Dentistry and Medical Science, Faculty of Science and Health, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

Naveed Iqbal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Interdisciplinary Engineering and Sciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Barana Jayawardana

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Lakmal Ranathunga

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

lakmalr@agri.pdn.ac.lk

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.