About the Authors
- Liang Xie
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Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Xie, Chenglong Luo
Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Institute of Animal Science & Veterinary, Hainan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China
- Chenglong Luo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Xie, Chenglong Luo
Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Chengguang Zhang
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Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Rong Zhang
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Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Jun Tang
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Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Qinghua Nie
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Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Li Ma
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Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Xiaoxiang Hu
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Affiliation College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Ning Li
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Affiliation College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- Yang Da
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* E-mail: yda@umn.edu (YD); xqzhang@scau.edu.cn (XZ)
Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Xiquan Zhang
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* E-mail: yda@umn.edu (YD); xqzhang@scau.edu.cn (XZ)
Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ YD NL. Performed the experiments: LX CL CZ RZ JT XH. Analyzed the data: CL LX YD LM QN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ YD. Wrote the paper: LX CL YD XZ.