About the Authors

Jun Liu

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Qiao-Chu Wang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Fei Wang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Xing Duan

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Xiao-Xin Dai

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Teng Wang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Hong-Lin Liu

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Xiang-Shun Cui

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, Korea

Nam-Hyung Kim

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, Korea

Shao-Chen Sun

sunsc@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL SCS. Performed the experiments: JL QCW FW. Analyzed the data: JL SCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XD XXD TW HLL XSC NHK. Wrote the paper: JL SCS.