About the Authors

Dorit Kalo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel, ASRC, Animal Sperm Research Center, Department of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel

Dan Reches

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel

Noam Netta

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel, Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Science, Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan, Israel

Alisa Komsky-Elbaz

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel, ASRC, Animal Sperm Research Center, Department of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel

Yoel Zeron

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ASRC, Animal Sperm Research Center, Department of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel, SION Artificial Insemination and Breeding Center, Hafetz-Haim, Israel

Uzi Moallem

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Science, Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan, Israel

Zvi Roth

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

z.roth@mail.huji.ac.il

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel, ASRC, Animal Sperm Research Center, Department of Animal Sciences, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.