About the Authors

Ranran Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ranran Liu, Yanfa Sun

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, P. R. China

Yanfa Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Ranran Liu, Yanfa Sun

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Guiping Zhao

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, P. R. China

Fangjie Wang

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China

Dan Wu

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, P. R. China

Maiqing Zheng

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, P. R. China

Jilan Chen

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, P. R. China

Lei Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, P. R. China

Yaodong Hu

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, P. R. China

Jie Wen

jiewen@iascaas.net.cn

Affiliations Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL GZ JW. Performed the experiments: RL YS GZ FW DW MZ LZ YH. Analyzed the data: RL YS DW GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC. Wrote the paper: RL YS JW.