About the Authors

Wiebke Garrels

Affiliation Institut für Nutztiergenetik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt, Germany

Lajos Mátés

Affiliation Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Stephanie Holler

Affiliation Institut für Nutztiergenetik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt, Germany

Anna Dalda

Affiliation Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Ulrike Taylor

Affiliation Institut für Nutztiergenetik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt, Germany

Björn Petersen

Affiliation Institut für Nutztiergenetik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt, Germany

Heiner Niemann

Affiliation Institut für Nutztiergenetik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt, Germany

Zsuzsanna Izsvák

Affiliations Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

Zoltán Ivics

wilfried.kues@fli.bund.de (WAK); zivics@mdc-berlin.de (ZI)

Affiliations Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

Wilfried A. Kues

wilfried.kues@fli.bund.de (WAK); zivics@mdc-berlin.de (ZI)

Affiliation Institut für Nutztiergenetik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WK Z. Ivics. Performed the experiments: WG LM SH AD UT BP HN Z. Ivics WK. Analyzed the data: Z. Ivics Z. Izsvák WK HN. Wrote the paper: WK Z. Ivics.