About the Authors

Yani Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yani Zhang, Yingjie Wang

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Yingjie Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yani Zhang, Yingjie Wang

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Qisheng Zuo

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Dong Li

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Wenhui Zhang

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Fei Wang

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Yanqin Ji

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Jing Jin

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Zhenyu Lu

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Man Wang

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Chen Zhang

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Bichun Li

yubcli@yzu.edu.cn

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China, Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction, and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YZ. Formal analysis: YZ YW. Investigation: YW QZ DL WZ. Methodology: YW FW. Project administration: YZ. Resources: YJ JJ ZL MW WZ CZ. Validation: YW. Writing – original draft: YZ. Writing – review & editing: BL.