About the Authors

Zheng Ruan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Shiqiang Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Yan Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Shumei Mi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Gang Liu

Affiliation Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Xin Wu

Affiliation Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Kang Yao

Affiliation Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Houssein Assaad

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Zeyuan Deng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Yongqing Hou

Affiliations Hubei Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Guoyao Wu

g-wu@tamu.edu (GW); yinyulong@isa.ac.cn (YY)

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Yulong Yin

g-wu@tamu.edu (GW); yinyulong@isa.ac.cn (YY)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZR YY GW. Performed the experiments: ZR SL. Analyzed the data: SL YZ SM HA ZD YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL XW KY. Wrote the paper: ZR YY GW.