About the Authors

Xinzhuo Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinzhuo Yang, Rui Ma

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Rui Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Xinzhuo Yang, Rui Ma

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Pengjun Shi

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Huoqing Huang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Yingguo Bai

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Yaru Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Peilong Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Yunliu Fan

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Bin Yao

binyao@caas.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM BY. Performed the experiments: XY RM PS. Analyzed the data: XY RM HH PY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YB YW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: XY RM YF.