About the Authors
- Ravinder Anand-Ivell
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ravinder Anand-Ivell, Stefan Hiendleder
Current address: FBN Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany
Affiliations Sansom Institute, and School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
- Stefan Hiendleder
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ravinder Anand-Ivell, Stefan Hiendleder
Affiliation Robinson Institute and School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Carolina Viñoles
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Current address: National Research Institute for Agriculture, National Meat and Wool Program, Km 386, Tacuarembó, Uruguay
Affiliation School of Animal Biology M092, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
- Graeme B. Martin
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Affiliation School of Animal Biology M092, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
- Carolyn Fitzsimmons
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Current address: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Edmonton, Canada
Affiliation Robinson Institute and School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Andrea Eurich
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Affiliation Robinson Institute and School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Bettina Hafen
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Affiliation Robinson Institute and School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Richard Ivell
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* E-mail: ivell@fbn-dummerstorf.de
Current address: FBN Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany
Affiliation Robinson Institute and School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Competing Interests
Dr. Ivell has read the journal's policy and has the following possible conflicts: The funders for this study included Meat and Livestock Australia and BioInnovation SA. However, there are no issues relating to employment or consultancy, nor any patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RA-I SH CF GBM CV RI. Performed the experiments: RA-I SH CV CF GBM AE BH. Analyzed the data: RA-I SH CV CF GBM AE BH RI. Wrote the paper: RA-I SH CV RI.