About the Authors

Mahmoud Hussein

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Viju V. Pillai

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Joshua M. Goddard

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Hui G. Park

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Kumar S. Kothapalli

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Deborah A. Ross

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Quirine M. Ketterings

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

J. Thomas Brenna

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Mark B. Milstein

Affiliation Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Helene Marquis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Patricia A. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jan P. Nyrop

Affiliation Department of Entomology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, New York, United States of America

Vimal Selvaraj

vs88@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VS. Data curation: MH. Formal analysis: MH VVP JMG HGP KSK DAR. Funding acquisition: VS MBM JPN PAJ. Investigation: MH VVP JMG HGP. Methodology: VS JPN MBM PAJ QMK JTB HM. Project administration: VS. Resources: VS JPN PAJ JTB. Supervision: VS. Visualization: VS MH VVP JMG. Writing – original draft: MH VS. Writing – review & editing: PAJ JPN.