About the Authors

Zhuanjian Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhuanjian Li, Xianyong Lan

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Xianyong Lan

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhuanjian Li, Xianyong Lan

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Wenjiao Guo

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Jiajie Sun

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Yongzhen Huang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Jing Wang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Tinghua Huang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Chuozhao Lei

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Xingtang Fang

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Hong Chen

chenhong1212@263.net

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for 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: ZL HC. Performed the experiments: ZL WG YH JW. Analyzed the data: ZL XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH CL JS XF. Wrote the paper: ZL.