About the Authors

Armin Schmitt

armin.schmitt@agrar.hu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institute for Animal Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Johannes Schuchhardt

Affiliation MicroDiscovery G. m. b. H., Berlin, Germany

Gudrun A. Brockmann

Affiliations Institute for Animal Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Variability and Adaptation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AOS. Analyzed the data: JS. Wrote the paper: AOS GB.