About the Authors

Dongming Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongming Zhao, Libin Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

Libin Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongming Zhao, Libin Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

Yanbing Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

Yongping Jiang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

Liling Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

Hualan Chen

hlchen1@yahoo.com

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZ L. Liang HC. Performed the experiments: DZ L. Liang YJ YL L. Liu. Analyzed the data: DZ HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: L. Liu. Wrote the paper: DZ HC.