About the Authors
- Dessie Salilew-Wondim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dessie Salilew-Wondim, Ijaz Ahmad
Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Ijaz Ahmad
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dessie Salilew-Wondim, Ijaz Ahmad
Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Samuel Gebremedhn
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Sudeep Sahadevan
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- MD Munir Hossain
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Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
- Franca Rings
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Michael Hoelker
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Ernst Tholen
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Christiane Neuhoff
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Christian Looft
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Karl Schellander
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Dawit Tesfaye
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* E-mail: tesfaye@itw.uni-bonn.de
Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Animal Breeding and Husbandry Group, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Competing Interests
Dawit Tesfaye is serving as academic editor for PLOS ONE but this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DSW DT KS MMH. Performed the experiments: DSW IA MH FR. Analyzed the data: DSW ET SS SG IA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS CL CN DT MH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DSW IA DT KS.