About the Authors

Jianmin Su

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 & 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 & 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 & Embryo Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Hui Peng

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

Song Hua

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A & F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology & 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 & 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 & 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

zhangylab@gmail.com

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A & F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproductive Physiology & 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 RZL HP SH QL FSQ ZKG. Analyzed the data: JMS YSW YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMS YSW. Wrote the paper: JMS YSW YZ.