About the Authors

Elie Jami

Affiliations Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel

Itzhak Mizrahi

itzhakm@agri.gov.il

Affiliation Department of Ruminant Science, Institute of Animal Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IM EJ. Performed the experiments: EJ. Analyzed the data: EJ IM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EJ IM. Wrote the paper: EJ IM.