About the Authors
- Tieshan Xu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tieshan Xu, Lihong Gu
Affiliations Institute of Animal Science (IAS), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, P.R. China, Tropical Crops Genetic Resources Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Danzhuo, Hainan, P.R. China
- Lihong Gu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tieshan Xu, Lihong Gu
Affiliations Institute of Animal Science (IAS), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, P.R. China, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R. China
- Kyle Michael Schachtschneider
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Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Xiaolin Liu
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Affiliation Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R. China
- Wei Huang
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science (IAS), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, P.R. China
- Ming Xie
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Science (IAS), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, P.R. China
- Shuisheng Hou
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* E-mail: houss2010@126.com
Affiliation Institute of Animal Science (IAS), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, P.R. China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SSH XLL. Performed the experiments: LHG. Analyzed the data: TSX MX. Wrote the paper: TSX. Manuscript Modification: KS. Experiment preparation: WH.