About the Authors

Zhengyu Jiang

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Amy C. Lossie

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Todd J. Applegate

applegt@purdue.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZJ ACL TJA. Performed the experiments: ZJ. Analyzed the data: ZJ ACL TJA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ACL TJA. Wrote the paper: ZJ ACL TJA.