About the Authors

Xuerong Yang

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

James E. Koltes

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Carissa A. Park

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Daiwen Chen

Affiliation Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

James M. Reecy

jreecy@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMR. Performed the experiments: CAP. Analyzed the data: JEK XRY. Wrote the paper: XRY JEK CAP DWC JMR.