About the Authors

Zhijun Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Swine and Poultry Breeding Industry, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, and College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Lin’an, China, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Xing Ju

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Swine and Poultry Breeding Industry, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, and College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Shiru Li

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Lin’an, China

Jiaao Yu

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Swine and Poultry Breeding Industry, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, and College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Xin Yang

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Swine and Poultry Breeding Industry, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, and College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Danfeng Cai

Roles Project administration, Validation

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Swine and Poultry Breeding Industry, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, and College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Kan Li

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Swine and Poultry Breeding Industry, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, and College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

John M. Gonzalez

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Qinghua Nie

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

nqinghua@scau.edu.cn (QN); lizhenhui@scau.edu.cn (ZL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Swine and Poultry Breeding Industry, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, and College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Zhenhui Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

nqinghua@scau.edu.cn (QN); lizhenhui@scau.edu.cn (ZL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Swine and Poultry Breeding Industry, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, and College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.