About the Authors

In-Seon Bae

Affiliation Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Ki Yong Chung

Affiliation National Institute of Animal Science, RDA, Pyeongchang, Gangwon, Republic of Korea

Jongmin Yi

Affiliation Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Tae Il Kim

Affiliation National Institute of Animal Science, RDA, Pyeongchang, Gangwon, Republic of Korea

Hwa-Sik Choi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, Shinhan University, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea

Young-Moo Cho

Affiliation National Institute of Animal Science, RDA, Pyeongchang, Gangwon, Republic of Korea

Inho Choi

Affiliation Bovine Genome Resources Bank, School of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea

Sang Hoon Kim

shkim@khu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ISB SHK. Performed the experiments: ISB JY. Analyzed the data: ISB KYC HSC IC SHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KYC TIK HSC YMC IC. Wrote the paper: ISB SHK.