About the Authors

Simon Leuchs

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Leuchs, Anja Saalfrank

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Anja Saalfrank

Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Leuchs, Anja Saalfrank

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Claudia Merkl

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Tatiana Flisikowska

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Marlene Edlinger

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Marina Durkovic

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Nousin Rezaei

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Mayuko Kurome

Affiliation Chair of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Valeri Zakhartchenko

Affiliation Chair of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Barbara Kessler

Affiliation Chair of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Krzysztof Flisikowski

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Alexander Kind

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Eckhard Wolf

Affiliation Chair of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Angelika Schnieke

schnieke@wzw.tum.de

Affiliation Chair of Livestock Biotechnology, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL A. Saalfrank CM TF A. Schnieke. Performed the experiments: SL A. Saalfrank TF ME MD NR MK VZ BK. Analyzed the data: KF AK EW A. Schnieke. Wrote the paper: SL AK A. Schnieke.