**Supplementary Materials:** Supplementary materials can be found at http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/7/2549/ s1.

**Author Contributions:** A.A. and Q.A.W. designed research; A.A. performed research, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript; A.A. and R.V.A. performed surgical embryo transfer; Q.A.W., G.J.B., and R.V.A. contributed new reagents and analytic tools, and edited the manuscript. T.E.S. and M.D.S. helped in research design and edited the manuscript. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This project was supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant No. 2017-67015-26460 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture. This work was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch Project COL00293D, accession number 1021217.

**Acknowledgments:** The authors express their gratitude to Institute of International Education (IIE) and United States Education Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) for funding doctoral studies of Asghar Ali at Colorado State University, through the Foreign Fulbright Scholarship Program. The authors are thankful to the maintenance crew at Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology lab, especially Richard Brandes, Greg Harding, and Joel Artzer. The authors also acknowledge Jennifer Barfield, Zella Brink, Dana Fuller, and Maria Marquez for collaborating with us.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
