About the Authors

Farhan Chowdhury

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yanzhen Li

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yeh-Chuin Poh

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Tamaki Yokohama-Tamaki

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Ning Wang

nwangrw@illinois.edu (NW); ttanaka@illinois.edu (TST)

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Tetsuya S. Tanaka

nwangrw@illinois.edu (NW); ttanaka@illinois.edu (TST)

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NW FC TST. Performed the experiments: FC TST YL Y-CP TY-T. Analyzed the data: FC TST Y-CP YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TST Y-CP TY-T. Wrote the paper: NW FC TST.