About the Authors

Tian Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Min Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zhiguo Wei

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Henan, People's Republic of China

Ping Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yi Sun

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xiaoxiang Hu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Liming Ren

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Qingyong Meng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Ran Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Ying Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Lennart Hammarstrom

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Ning Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yaofeng Zhao

yaofengzhao@cau.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproduction and Germplasm Enhancement in Universities of Shandong, College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH LH NL YZ. Performed the experiments: TH MZ. Analyzed the data: TH MZ ZW PW YS XH LR YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QM RZ YG. Wrote the paper: TH LH YZ.