About the Authors

Jun Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Liu, Yan Luo, Hengtao Ge

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Yan Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Liu, Yan Luo, Hengtao Ge

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Hengtao Ge

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Liu, Yan Luo, Hengtao Ge

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Chengquan Han

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Hui Zhang

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Yongsheng Wang

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Jianmin Su

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Fusheng Quan

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Mingqing Gao

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Yong Zhang

zhangylab@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL YZ. Performed the experiments: JL YL HTG CQH YSW. Analyzed the data: JL YL JMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ FSQ MQG. Wrote the paper: JL YL.