About the Authors

Jiajie Sun

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou Jiangsu, China

Yang Zhou

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Hanfang Cai

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Xianyong Lan

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Chuzhao Lei

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Xin Zhao

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Chunlei Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou Jiangsu, China

Hong Chen

chenhong1212@263.net

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJS XYL CZL CLZ XZ HC. Performed the experiments: JJS YZ HFC. Analyzed the data: JJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC. Wrote the paper: JJS.