About the Authors

Mingming Yang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Weiwei Zhang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Shengyue Ji

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Pinghua Cao

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Yulin Chen

xylgene@126.com (YC); zhaoxin@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XZ)

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Xin Zhao

xylgene@126.com (YC); zhaoxin@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XZ)

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China, Department of Animal Science, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ YC MY. Performed the experiments: MY WZ SJ PC. Analyzed the data: MY XZ YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MY WZ SJ. Wrote the paper: XZ YC MY.