About the Authors

Li Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wu, Wence Wang, Kang Yao

Affiliation Research Center of Healthy Breeding of Livestock and Poultry, Hunan Engineering and Research Center of Animal and Poultry Science, and Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Wence Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wu, Wence Wang, Kang Yao

Affiliations College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Guelph Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Kang Yao

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wu, Wence Wang, Kang Yao

Affiliation Research Center of Healthy Breeding of Livestock and Poultry, Hunan Engineering and Research Center of Animal and Poultry Science, and Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Ting Zhou

yinyulong@isa.ac.cn (YY); Ting.Zhou@agr.gc.ca (TZ)

Affiliation Guelph Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Jie Yin

Affiliation Research Center of Healthy Breeding of Livestock and Poultry, Hunan Engineering and Research Center of Animal and Poultry Science, and Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Tiejun Li

Affiliation Research Center of Healthy Breeding of Livestock and Poultry, Hunan Engineering and Research Center of Animal and Poultry Science, and Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Lin Yang

Affiliation College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Liuqin He

Affiliation Research Center of Healthy Breeding of Livestock and Poultry, Hunan Engineering and Research Center of Animal and Poultry Science, and Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Xiaojian Yang

Affiliation Guelph Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Hongfu Zhang

Affiliation China National Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing Animal and Veterinary Science Institute, Chinese Agricultural Academy, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Qi Wang

Affiliation Guelph Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Ruilin Huang

Affiliation Research Center of Healthy Breeding of Livestock and Poultry, Hunan Engineering and Research Center of Animal and Poultry Science, and Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Yulong Yin

yinyulong@isa.ac.cn (YY); Ting.Zhou@agr.gc.ca (TZ)

Affiliation Research Center of Healthy Breeding of Livestock and Poultry, Hunan Engineering and Research Center of Animal and Poultry Science, and Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TZ YY. Performed the experiments: LW LH JY XY RH QW TL. Analyzed the data: WW LW LY HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KY YY. Wrote the paper: WW KY.