About the Authors

Yiren Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiren Gu, Mingzhou Li, Tao Wang

Affiliation Sichuan Animal Science Academy, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Mingzhou Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiren Gu, Mingzhou Li, Tao Wang

Affiliations Institute of Animal Genetics & Breeding, College of Animal Science & Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center & College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Tao Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiren Gu, Mingzhou Li, Tao Wang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics & Breeding, College of Animal Science & Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Yan Liang

Affiliation Sichuan Animal Science Academy, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Zhijun Zhong

Affiliations Sichuan Animal Science Academy, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Institute of Animal Genetics & Breeding, College of Animal Science & Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Xiaoyan Wang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics & Breeding, College of Animal Science & Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Qi Zhou

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Ya’an Vocational College, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Lei Chen

Affiliation Chongqing Academy of Animal Science, Chongqing, China

Qiulei Lang

Affiliation LC-Bio, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Zhiping He

Affiliation Sichuan Animal Science Academy, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Xiaohui Chen

Affiliation Sichuan Animal Science Academy, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Jianjun Gong

Affiliation Sichuan Animal Science Academy, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Xiaolian Gao

Affiliation Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xuewei Li

xuewei.li@sicau.edu.cn (XWL); lvxuebin1965@gmail.com (XBL)

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics & Breeding, College of Animal Science & Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Xuebin Lv

xuewei.li@sicau.edu.cn (XWL); lvxuebin1965@gmail.com (XBL)

Affiliation Sichuan Animal Science Academy, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG ML X. Li X. Lv. Performed the experiments: YG ML TW YL ZZ XW QZ LC QL ZH XC JG X. Li X. Lv. Analyzed the data: YG ML TW QL XG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG ML TW YL ZZ XW QZ LC ZH XC JG X. Li X. Lv. Wrote the paper: ML YG.