About the Authors

Zhengyu Jiang

Current address: Cancer Epigenetics Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Todd J. Applegate

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Amy C. Lossie

alossie@purdue.edu

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that Biomin Research Center, Tulln, Austria provided funding in terms of a research gift to TA at Purdue University. There are no restrictions on access to information, publication, or use of materials associated with this gift. Therefore, this partial funding by a commercial entity does not alter the authors adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZJ TJA ACL. Performed the experiments: ZJ ACL. Analyzed the data: ZJ ACL TJA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJA ACL. Wrote the paper: ZJ ACL TJA.