About the Authors

Tianfei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianfei Liu, Hao Qu

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, China, Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, China

Hao Qu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianfei Liu, Hao Qu

Affiliations Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, China

Chenglong Luo

Affiliations Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, China

Xuewei Li

lixuewei9125@126.com (XL); shudm@263.net (DS); Guosheng.Su@agrsci.dk (GS)

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, China

Dingming Shu

lixuewei9125@126.com (XL); shudm@263.net (DS); Guosheng.Su@agrsci.dk (GS)

Affiliations Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, China

Mogens Sandø Lund

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

Guosheng Su

lixuewei9125@126.com (XL); shudm@263.net (DS); Guosheng.Su@agrsci.dk (GS)

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL GS DS. Performed the experiments: TL HQ. Analyzed the data: TL HQ CL XL DS MSL GS. Wrote the paper: TL HQ CL XL DS MSL GS.