About the Authors

Jiahuan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiahuan Chen, Zhijuan Lu

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Zhijuan Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiahuan Chen, Zhijuan Lu

Affiliations Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, Zhengzhou Senior High School, Zhemgzhou, Henan, People's Republic of China

De Cheng

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Sha Peng

pengsha123@yahoo.com.cn (SP); hhwang101@163.com (HW)

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Huayan Wang

pengsha123@yahoo.com.cn (SP); hhwang101@163.com (HW)

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW. Performed the experiments: JC ZL DC. Analyzed the data: JC SP HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC SP. Wrote the paper: JC SP HW.