About the Authors

Xue-Feng Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-Feng Huang, Yan Li

shihuijuan2011@163.com (HJS); xuefhuang@hotmail.com (XFH)

Affiliations Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Reproductive Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Yan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-Feng Huang, Yan Li

Affiliation Reproductive Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Yi-Hua Gu

Affiliation National Population and Family Planning Key Laboratory of Contraceptive Drugs and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China

Miao Liu

Affiliation Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yan Xu

Affiliation Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yao Yuan

Affiliation National Population and Family Planning Key Laboratory of Contraceptive Drugs and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China

Fei Sun

Affiliation Laboratory for Reproductive Biology, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Hui-Qin Zhang

Affiliations Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, National Population and Family Planning Key Laboratory of Contraceptive Drugs and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China

Hui-Juan Shi

shihuijuan2011@163.com (HJS); xuefhuang@hotmail.com (XFH)

Affiliations Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, National Population and Family Planning Key Laboratory of Contraceptive Drugs and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed to the conducting of experiments, acquisition and the drafting of manuscript: X-FH YL. Contributed to analysis of data and helpful discussion: Y-HG ML. Contributed to animal care and cesarean delivery of pups: YX YY. Provided technical support for the study, especially with in vitro fertilization: FS H-QZ. Contributed to the study concept and design and supervised the study: H-JS X-FH. Critical revisions of the manuscript for intellectual content: X-FH YL Y-HG ML YX YY FS H-QZ H-JS.