About the Authors
- Xia Zhao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Zhao, Keren E. Dittmer
Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Keren E. Dittmer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Zhao, Keren E. Dittmer
Affiliation Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Hugh T. Blair
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Affiliation Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Keith G. Thompson
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Affiliation Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Max F. Rothschild
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Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Dorian J. Garrick
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* E-mail: dorian@iastate.edu
Affiliations Department of Animal Science and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DJG MFR. Performed the experiments: XZ KD. Analyzed the data: XZ DJG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HTB KGT DJG MFR. Wrote the paper: XZ.