About the Authors

Jianmin Su

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianmin Su, Yongsheng Wang

jianminsu@163.com (JMS); zhangylab@gmail.com (YZ)

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology and Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Yongsheng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianmin Su, Yongsheng Wang

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology and Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Yanyan Li

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology and Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Ruizhe Li

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology and Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Qian Li

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology and Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Yongyan Wu

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology and Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Fusheng Quan

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology and Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Jun Liu

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology and Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Zekun Guo

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Yong Zhang

jianminsu@163.com (JMS); zhangylab@gmail.com (YZ)

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology and Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMS YZ. Performed the experiments: JMS YSW YYL RZL QL YYW FSQ JL ZKG. Analyzed the data: JMS YSW YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMS YSW. Wrote the paper: JMS YSW YZ. Obtained permission for use of cell line: QL.