About the Authors

Lakshmi T. Sunkara

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Weiyu Jiang

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Guolong Zhang

zguolon@okstate.edu

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Physiological Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LTS GZ. Performed the experiments: LTS WJ GZ. Analyzed the data: LTS WJ GZ. Wrote the paper: LTS GZ.