About the Authors

Weiyi Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Weiyi Liu, Pengpeng Bi

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Pengpeng Bi

Contributed equally to this work with: Weiyi Liu, Pengpeng Bi

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Tizhong Shan

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Xin Yang

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Hang Yin

Affiliation Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Yong-Xu Wang

Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ning Liu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Michael A. Rudnicki

Affiliation Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Shihuan Kuang

skuang@purdue.edu

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Purdue University Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WL PB SK. Performed the experiments: WL PB TS XY. Analyzed the data: WL PB SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY Y-XW NL MAR. Wrote the paper: WL SK.