About the Authors

Christopher B. Guest

Affiliations Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Eric L. Deszo

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Matthew E. Hartman

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jason M. York

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Keith W. Kelley

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Gregory G. Freund

*E-mail: freun@uiuc.edu

Affiliations Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GF CG ED MH. Performed the experiments: CG ED MH JY. Analyzed the data: GF CG ED MH JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GF. Wrote the paper: GF CG ED MH KK.