1 Department of Animal & Veterinary Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University. College of Agricultural & Marine Sciences, P.O.box 34. 123 Alkhod, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. yasmin@squ.edu.om.
2 Department of Animal & Veterinary Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University. College of Agricultural & Marine Sciences, P.O.box 34. 123 Alkhod, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
3 Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Oulu, Finland.
4 Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, 0361, Oslo, Norway.
5 Department of Biosciences, School of Science & Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ, UK.