Acknowledgements
The authors would also like to thank the staff at the Genomics facility in the Advanced Analysis Centre at the University of Guelph for support provided during troubleshooting and sequence data generation for this work.
Disclosure statement
The authors do not have any competing interests to declare in relation to the completion of this research.
Author contributions
DW designed and carried out the backcrossing experiment. RH and KCM designed the plan for molecular analyses and KCM conducted the genetic lab work and sequence analysis. DW, KCM, and RH worked on the writing and revision of the manuscript. DW and RH contributed funding to allow the research to occur.