About the Authors

Lan-Bi Nie

Contributed equally to this work with: Lan-Bi Nie, Qin-Li Liang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China, College of Veterinary Medicine, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, People’s Republic of China

Qin-Li Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lan-Bi Nie, Qin-Li Liang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China

Meng Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China

Rui Du

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

Meng-Yuan Zhang

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Jingjie PTM Biolabs (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd., Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Hany M. Elsheikha

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hany.elsheikha@nottingham.ac.uk (HME); xingquanzhu1@hotmail.com (XQZ)

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Xing-Quan Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hany.elsheikha@nottingham.ac.uk (HME); xingquanzhu1@hotmail.com (XQZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China, College of Veterinary Medicine, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of Yunnan Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.