About the Authors

Congying Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Congying Chen, Rongxing Wei

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Biotechnology of Jiangxi Province and the Ministry of Agriculture of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China

Rongxing Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Congying Chen, Rongxing Wei

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Animal Biotechnology of Jiangxi Province and the Ministry of Agriculture of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China, Nanchang Working Canine Base, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China

Ruimin Qiao

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Biotechnology of Jiangxi Province and the Ministry of Agriculture of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China

Jun Ren

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Biotechnology of Jiangxi Province and the Ministry of Agriculture of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China

Hui Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Biotechnology of Jiangxi Province and the Ministry of Agriculture of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China

Chenlong Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Biotechnology of Jiangxi Province and the Ministry of Agriculture of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China

Lusheng Huang

Lushenghuang@hotmail.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Biotechnology of Jiangxi Province and the Ministry of Agriculture of China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH CC. Performed the experiments: CC RQ CL HY. Analyzed the data: CC RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH CC. Wrote the paper: CC RW. Provided comments and suggestions for the manuscript: JR.