About the Authors

Darcy L. Johannsen

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Jose E. Galgani

Affiliations Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Neil M. Johannsen

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Zhengyu Zhang

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Covington

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Eric Ravussin

RavussE@pbrc.edu

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Johannsen serves as an Academic Editor for PLoS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DLJ JEG NMJ ER. Performed the experiments: ZZ NMJ JDC. Analyzed the data: DLJ NMJ JDC. Wrote the paper: DLJ ER JDC.