About the Authors
- He Meng
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Contributed equally to this work with: He Meng, Yan Zhang
* E-mail: menghe@sjtu.edu.cn (HM); yzhang@vbi.vt.edu (YZ); pbsiegel@vt.edu (PBS)
Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China
- Yan Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: He Meng, Yan Zhang
* E-mail: menghe@sjtu.edu.cn (HM); yzhang@vbi.vt.edu (YZ); pbsiegel@vt.edu (PBS)
Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Lele Zhao
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Affiliation School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China
- Wenjing Zhao
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Affiliation School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China
- Chuan He
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Affiliation Shanghai Personal Biotechnology Limited Company, Shanghai, P. R. China
- Christa F. Honaker
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Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Zhengxiao Zhai
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Affiliation School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China
- Zikui Sun
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Affiliation Shanghai Personal Biotechnology Limited Company, Shanghai, P. R. China
- Paul B. Siegel
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* E-mail: menghe@sjtu.edu.cn (HM); yzhang@vbi.vt.edu (YZ); pbsiegel@vt.edu (PBS)
Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
Chuan He and Zikui Sun are employed by Shanghai Personal Biotechnology Limited Company. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HM PBS YZ. Performed the experiments: LZ WZ YZ ZZ ZS. Analyzed the data: CH LZ WZ YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CFH PBS YZ. Wrote the manuscript: CFH HM PBS YZ.