About the Authors

Xudong Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xudong Liang, Jeffrey W. Hall

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Jeffrey W. Hall

Contributed equally to this work with: Xudong Liang, Jeffrey W. Hall

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Junshu Yang

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Meiying Yan

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Katherine Doll

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Russell Bey

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Yinduo Ji

jixxx002@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL JWH YJ. Performed the experiments: XL JWH JY MY KD. Analyzed the data: XL JWH JY RB YJ. Wrote the paper: XL JWH JY MY KH RB YJ.