About the Authors

Yi-Quan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Quan Wu, Di-Jun Chen, Hua-Bin He

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Di-Jun Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Quan Wu, Di-Jun Chen, Hua-Bin He

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Hua-Bin He

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Quan Wu, Di-Jun Chen, Hua-Bin He

Affiliation Key Lab of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of Ministry of Education & Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Animal Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Dong-Sheng Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Ling-Ling Chen

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Huan-Chun Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Zheng-Fei Liu

lzf6789@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Z-FL Y-QW H-BH. Performed the experiments: Y-QW H-BH. Analyzed the data: D-JC Y-QW D-SC L-LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Z-FL D-JC H-CC. Wrote the paper: Y-QW D-JC Z-FL.