About the Authors

Pieter Meeremans

Contributed equally to this work with: Pieter Meeremans, Sven Sebastian Uhlmann

Current address: Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Paramaribo, Suriname

Affiliations Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit, Ostend, Belgium

Noëlle Yochum

Current address: NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Marc Kochzius

Affiliation Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Bart Ampe

Affiliation Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit, Ostend, Belgium

Frank A. M. Tuyttens

Affiliations Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit, Ostend, Belgium, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Sven Sebastian Uhlmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Pieter Meeremans, Sven Sebastian Uhlmann

sven.uhlmann@gmx.net

Affiliation Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Sciences Unit, Ostend, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PM NY SSU. Data curation: PM BA. Formal analysis: BA SSU PM. Funding acquisition: SSU. Investigation: PM SSU. Methodology: NY SSU BA PM. Project administration: SSU PM. Resources: BA PM. Software: BA SSU. Supervision: MK FAMT. Validation: PM BA FAMT. Visualization: SSU BA PM. Writing – original draft: SSU PM NY. Writing – review & editing: FAMT MK.