About the Authors

Theo A. T. G. van Kempen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

theovankempen@yahoo.com

Affiliations Trouw Nutrition, Boxmeer, Netherlands, Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Samuel Benítez Puñal

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Jet Huijser

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Stefaan De Smet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Animal Product Quality, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

van Kempen, Punal, and Huijser are employed by the company that funded the work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.