About the Authors

Yanxia Hou

Affiliation Centre for Animal Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Technical Services and State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China

Yingying Guo

Affiliation Centre for Animal Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Technical Services and State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China

Chunyan Wu

Affiliation Centre for Animal Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Technical Services and State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China

Nan Shen

Affiliation Centre for Animal Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Technical Services and State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China

Yongping Jiang

ypjiang99@163.com (YJ); jingfei_wang@hotmail.com (JW)

Affiliations Centre for Animal Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Technical Services and State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China, Animal Influenza Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China

Jingfei Wang

ypjiang99@163.com (YJ); jingfei_wang@hotmail.com (JW)

Affiliation Centre for Animal Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Technical Services and State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW YJ YH. Performed the experiments: YH YG CW NS YJ JW. Analyzed the data: YH YG YJ JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJ JW. Wrote the paper: YH YG JW.