About the Authors

Fernando D. Villarreal

Contributed equally to this work with: Fernando D. Villarreal, Gautom Kumar Das

fvillarreal@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Gautom Kumar Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Fernando D. Villarreal, Gautom Kumar Das

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Aamir Abid

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Ian M. Kennedy

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Dietmar Kültz

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FV GKD. Performed the experiments: FV GKD. Analyzed the data: FV GKD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FV GKD AA. Wrote the paper: FV GKD IMK DK.