About the Authors

Chunlan Xu

clxu@nwpu.edu.cn

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Space Bioscience and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Youming Wang

Affiliation Institute of Feed Science, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China

Rui Sun

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Space Bioscience and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Xiangjin Qiao

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Space Bioscience and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Xiaoya Shang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Space Bioscience and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Weining Niu

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Space Bioscience and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLX. Performed the experiments: YMW RS XJQ. Analyzed the data: RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XYS WNN. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CLX.