About the Authors

Martin Braunschweig

martin.braunschweig@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland

Vidhya Jagannathan

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland

Andreas Gutzwiller

Affiliation Federal Research Station for Animal Production, Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux, Posieux, Switzerland

Giuseppe Bee

Affiliation Federal Research Station for Animal Production, Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux, Posieux, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHB AG GB. Performed the experiments: MHB. Analyzed the data: MHB VJ GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHB VJ AG GB. Wrote the paper: MHB.