About the Authors

Linkai Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Linkai Huang, Haidong Yan

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Haidong Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Linkai Huang, Haidong Yan

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Xiaomei Jiang

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Guohua Yin

Affiliation College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Xinquan Zhang

zhangxq@sicau.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Xiao Qi

Affiliation National Animal Husbandry Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, Beijing, China

Yu Zhang

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Yanhong Yan

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Xiao Ma

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Yan Peng

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LKH XQZ. Performed the experiments: LKH XMJ HDY. Analyzed the data: LKH HDY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XQZ XQ YHY XM. Wrote the paper: HDY LKH. Improved the manuscript: LKH HDY GHY XQZ YZ YHY XM YP.