1 Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.
2 Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. Electronic address: mzhandi@ut.ac.ir.
3 Department of Poultry Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
4 Department of Animal and Poultry Science, College of Aburaihan, University of Tehran, Pakdasht, Tehran, Iran; Department of Transgenic Animal Science, Stem Cell Technology Research Center, Tehran, Iran.
5 Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.