About the Authors

Kathrin Kienapfel

Kathrin.Kienapfel@rub.de (KK); koenigvb@gwdg.de (UK)

Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Yvonne Link

Affiliation Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Uta König v. Borstel

Kathrin.Kienapfel@rub.de (KK); koenigvb@gwdg.de (UK)

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK YL. Performed the experiments: YL. Analyzed the data: YL UK KK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL KK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: YL KK UK.