About the Authors

Xuying Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Xuying.Zhang@agrar.uni-giessen.de (XZ); Sven.Koenig@agrar.uni-giessen.de (SK)

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Johanna Mainzer

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Isabella Giambra

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Tong Yin

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

Affiliations Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany, Zhejiang Key Lab of Cow Genetics Improvement and Milk Quality Research, Wenzhou, P.R. China

Petra Engel

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Hannah Hümmelchen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary Clinic for Reproductive Medicine and Neonatalogy, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Henrik Wagner

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary Clinic for Reproductive Medicine and Neonatalogy, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Axel Wehrend

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary Clinic for Reproductive Medicine and Neonatalogy, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Christiane Egerer

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Clinic for Swine, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Katharina Gerhards

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

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Clinic for Swine, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Gerald Reiner

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Clinic for Swine, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Sven König

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

Xuying.Zhang@agrar.uni-giessen.de (XZ); Sven.Koenig@agrar.uni-giessen.de (SK)

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.