About the Authors

Gao-jun Xiao

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

Sheng-Wang Jiang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

Li-Li Qian

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

Chun-Bo Cai

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

Qing-qing Wang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

De-Zun Ma

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

Biao Li

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

Shan-shan Xie

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

Wen-Tao Cui

cuiwentao@caas.cn

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

Kui Li

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WC GX KL. Data curation: WC GX. Formal analysis: WC GX. Funding acquisition: WC KL. Investigation: WC GX. Methodology: GX SJ LQ QW DM BL SX. Project administration: WC KL. Resources: WC GX. Software: WC GX CC. Supervision: WC. Validation: WC. Writing – original draft: WC GX. Writing – review & editing: WC GX.