About the Authors

Thais Matos Ceacero

Affiliation Centro APTA Bovinos de Corte, Instituto de Zootecnia, Sertãozinho, SP, Brazil

Maria Eugênia Zerlotti Mercadante

mercadante@iz.sp.gov.br

Affiliation Centro APTA Bovinos de Corte, Instituto de Zootecnia, Sertãozinho, SP, Brazil

Joslaine Noely dos Santos Gonçalves Cyrillo

Affiliation Centro APTA Bovinos de Corte, Instituto de Zootecnia, Sertãozinho, SP, Brazil

Roberta Carrilho Canesin

Affiliation Centro APTA Bovinos de Corte, Instituto de Zootecnia, Sertãozinho, SP, Brazil

Sarah Figueiredo Martins Bonilha

Affiliation Centro APTA Bovinos de Corte, Instituto de Zootecnia, Sertãozinho, SP, Brazil

Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque

Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Universidade Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MEZM JNSGC SFMB LGA. Data curation: MEZM JNSGC. Formal analysis: TMC MEZM. Funding acquisition: LGA. Investigation: TMC RCC. Methodology: TMC MEZM. Resources: MEZM JNSGC LGA. Validation: TMC MEZM. Visualization: TMC MEZM RCC. Writing - original draft: TMC MEZM. Writing - review & editing: TMC MEZM RCC.