Singh, Prashant
Golla, Naresh
Singh, Pankaj
Baddela, Vijay Simha
Chand, Subhash
Baithalu, Rubina Kumari
Singh, Dheer
Onteru, Suneel Kumar
Funding for this research was provided by:
ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (IXX10906)
ICAR-National Agricultural Science Fund (OXX03374)
Article History
Received: 29 September 2016
Accepted: 18 April 2017
First Online: 26 April 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The present work was funded by ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (ICAR-NDRI), Karnal, India (Project No. IXX10906), and ICAR-National Agriculture Science Foundation (ICAR-NASF), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, Government of India (Project No. OXX03374).
: The authors have no financial and non-financial competing interests with other people and organizations influencing the paper content.
: We added an additional author Pankaj Singh as a third author in the revised manuscript. As the major revision needed the provision of an additional data to prove specificity of the amplified miRNA products, we have cloned and sequenced three amplified miRNA products. Pankaj Singh contributed the cloning and sequencing work. Hence, his name is included as a third author. All other co-authors agreed in this regard.
: An institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) of the ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India, a registered ethics committee of CPCSEA (Reg No. 1705/GO/ac/13/CPCSEA) approved animals for sample collection in this research work under the Project Nos. IXX10906 and OXX03374. Accordingly, “all applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed”.