About the Authors

Alissa Piekarski

Contributed equally to this work with: Alissa Piekarski, Stephanie Khaldi, Walter Bottje

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Stephanie Khaldi

Contributed equally to this work with: Alissa Piekarski, Stephanie Khaldi, Walter Bottje

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Elizabeth Greene

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Kentu Lassiter

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

James G. Mason

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Nicholas Anthony

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Walter Bottje

Contributed equally to this work with: Alissa Piekarski, Stephanie Khaldi, Walter Bottje

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Sami Dridi

dridi@uark.edu

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD. Performed the experiments: AP SK EG KL JM. Analyzed the data: AP SK EG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NA WB SD. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SD.