About the Authors

Wang Yao

Contributed equally to this work with: Wang Yao, Yinxia Li, Bojiang Li

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

Yinxia Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Wang Yao, Yinxia Li, Bojiang Li

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China

Bojiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Wang Yao, Yinxia Li, Bojiang Li

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

Hua Luo

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

Hongtao Xu

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

Zengxiang Pan

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

Zhuang Xie

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

Qifa Li

liqifa@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QL ZX. Performed the experiments: WY BL HL HX YL. Analyzed the data: WY ZP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WY BL YL. Wrote the paper: WY YL QL.