Struck, Ann-Kathrin
Dierks, Claudia
Braun, Marina
Hellige, Maren
Wagner, Anna
Oelmaier, Bernd
Beineke, Andreas
Metzger, Julia
Distl, Ottmar http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3516-836X
Article History
Received: 14 June 2018
Accepted: 23 September 2018
First Online: 11 October 2018
Ethics approval
: All animal work has been conducted according to the national and international guidelines for animal welfare. The present study had been specifically approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), the Lower Saxony state veterinary office at the Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit, Oldenburg, Germany (registration number 04A 247/509c-42,502-02A99). We obtained written informed consent from the owners of Miniature Zebus to use samples from their animals in the present study. Samples of controls from other breeds were taken from our biobank and all the owners of these animals gave written informed consent to use these samples.
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