About the Authors

Yanqiang Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yu Gao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Freyja Imsland

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Xiaorong Gu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Chungang Feng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Ranran Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Chi Song

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Jiangsu lnstitute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, China

Michèle Tixier-Boichard

Affiliation INRA, AgroParisTech, UMR1313 Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology, Jouy-en-Josas, France

David Gourichon

Affiliation INRA, UE1295 PEAT, Nouzilly, France

Qingyuan Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Kuanwei Chen

Affiliation Jiangsu lnstitute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, China

Huifang Li

Affiliation Jiangsu lnstitute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, China

Leif Andersson

Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Xiaoxiang Hu

huxx@cau.edu.cn; ninglcau@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Ning Li

huxx@cau.edu.cn; ninglcau@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL XH LA. Performed the experiments: YW FI YG XG CF RL CS QL. Analyzed the data: XG YW YG FI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT DG KC HL. Wrote the paper: YW YG FI LA.