About the Authors

Chunyi Li

Affiliations Developmental Biology Group, AgResearch Ltd, Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, New Zealand, State Key Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Special Economic Animals, Changchun, China

Anne Harper

Affiliation Developmental Biology Group, AgResearch Ltd, Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, New Zealand

Jonathan Puddick

Affiliation Waikato Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Wenying Wang

Affiliation Developmental Biology Group, AgResearch Ltd, Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, New Zealand

Chris McMahon

chris.mcmahon@agresearch.co.nz

Affiliation Developmental Biology Group, AgResearch Ltd, Ruakura Agricultural Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand

Competing Interests

Chunyi Li, Wenying Wang and Chris McMahon are employees of AgResearch Ltd. These authors receive a salary as employees, but have not benefited from this research in any other way. Anne Harper was an employee of AgResearch Ltd during the research and writing of this manuscript, but no longer works for this company. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL AH. Performed the experiments: AH JP WW CL. Analyzed the data: AH JP WW CL CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH CL WW JP. Wrote the paper: AH CL CM.