| Affiliation: | 1. National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science (NILGS);2. These authors contributed equally to the work.;3. Ibaraki Prefecture Livestock Research Centre, Hitachi‐Ohmiya;4. Iwate Prefecture Livestock Research Centre, Takizawa, Iwate;5. National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Tsukuba;6. Maebashi Institute of Animal Science, Livestock Improvement Association of Japan (LIAJ), Maebashi;7. Shimane Prefectural Livestock Technology Centre, Izumo;8. Tottori Prefecture Livestock Research Centre, Kotoura;9. Kumamoto Prefecture Livestock Research Centre, Gohshi;10. National Agricultural Research Centre for Western Region, Oda;11. Shirakawa Institute of Animal Genetics, Nishigo, Fukushima, Japan;12. School of Agricultural Science/TIAR, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
