About the Authors

Kieran P. Dowd

kieran.dowd@ul.ie

Affiliation Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Deirdre M. Harrington

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Alan E. Donnelly

Affiliation Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KD DH AD. Performed the experiments: KD DH AD. Analyzed the data: KD DH AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KD DH AD. Wrote the paper: KD DH AD.