About the Authors

Yin Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yin Fan, Yuyun Xing

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

Yuyun Xing

Contributed equally to this work with: Yin Fan, Yuyun Xing

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

Zhiyan Zhang

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

Huashui Ai

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

Zixuan Ouyang

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

Jing Ouyang

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

Ming 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

Pinghua Li

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

Yijie Chen

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 Gao

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

Lin Li

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 (LH); renjunjxau@hotmail.com (JR)

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

lushenghuang@hotmail.com (LH); renjunjxau@hotmail.com (JR)

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: JR LH. Performed the experiments: YF YX ZO JO MY PL YC. Analyzed the data: JR ZZ HA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG LL. Wrote the paper: JR LH.