About the Authors

Qiugang Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiugang Ma, Chunqi Gao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Chunqi Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiugang Ma, Chunqi Gao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Jianyun Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Lihong Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Wenbo Hao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Cheng Ji

jicheng@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QGM CQG CJ. Performed the experiments: CQG JYZ LHZ. Analyzed the data: CQG JYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QGM CQG JYZ LHZ WBH CJ. Wrote the paper: CQG QGM CJ. Read and approved the final manuscript: CJ QGM CQG JYZ LHZ WBH.