About the Authors

Hao Chen

Affiliation Poultry Diseases Lab, College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Quanbin Ou

Affiliation Poultry Diseases Lab, College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Yi Tang

Affiliation Poultry Diseases Lab, College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Xuhui Gao

Affiliation Poultry Diseases Lab, College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Lili Wu

Affiliation Poultry Diseases Lab, College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Cong Xue

Affiliation Poultry Diseases Lab, College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Chunmei Yu

Affiliation Poultry Diseases Lab, College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Jingteng Cui

Affiliation Poultry Diseases Lab, College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Youxiang Diao

yxdiao@126.com

Affiliation Poultry Diseases Lab, College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD YT. Performed the experiments: HC XG CY. Analyzed the data: CX LW HC JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QO HC XG. Wrote the paper: HC QO.