About the Authors

Ying Yu

Affiliation Department of Animal & Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Huanmin Zhang

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Fei Tian

Affiliation Department of Animal & Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Larry Bacon

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Yuan Zhang

Affiliation College of Animal Sciences, China Agricultural University, Haidian, Beijing, China

Wensheng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Animal & Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jiuzhou Song

*E-mail: songj88@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal & Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS YZ. Performed the experiments: YY FT. Analyzed the data: YY WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ LB. Wrote the paper: JS YY.