About the Authors

Henrik Hornshøj

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Tjele, Denmark

Lene Nagstrup Conley

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Tjele, Denmark

Jakob Hedegaard

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Tjele, Denmark

Peter Sørensen

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Tjele, Denmark

Frank Panitz

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Tjele, Denmark

Christian Bendixen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: christian.bendixen@agrsci.dk

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus, Tjele, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Proposed and supervised the experimental work and contributed to the interpretation of analysis results and manuscript evaluation: CB. Revised the manuscript: FP. Contributed to the data analysis: PS. Involved in data analysis, interpretation of the analysis results and manuscript evaluation: JH. Carried out experimental work and data acquisition: LC. Participated in the experimental design/work and carried out the data analysis and drafting of the manuscript: HH.