About the Authors

Yuanyuan Gao

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ruminant Nutritional Physiology, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China

Xueyan Lin

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ruminant Nutritional Physiology, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China

Kerong Shi

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ruminant Nutritional Physiology, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China

Zhengui Yan

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ruminant Nutritional Physiology, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China

Zhonghua Wang

zhwang@sdau.edu.cn

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ruminant Nutritional Physiology, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW. Performed the experiments: YG. Analyzed the data: YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL ZY. Wrote the paper: YG. Revised the manuscript: KS.