About the Authors

Eduard Murani

Contributed equally to this work with: Eduard Murani, Henry Reyer

Affiliation Research Unit Molecular Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Henry Reyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Eduard Murani, Henry Reyer

Affiliation Research Unit Molecular Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Siriluck Ponsuksili

Affiliation Research Group Functional Genome Analysis, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Stephan Fritschka

Affiliation Research Unit Molecular Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Klaus Wimmers

wimmers@fbn-dummertorf.de

Affiliation Research Unit Molecular Biology, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EM KW. Performed the experiments: HR SP SF. Analyzed the data: EM HR SP SF KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM HR SP SF KW. Wrote the paper: EM.