About the Authors

Shuai Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuai Zhang, Yan Zhang, Chunhong Yang

Affiliations Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China, College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, PR China

Yan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuai Zhang, Yan Zhang, Chunhong Yang

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China

Chunhong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuai Zhang, Yan Zhang, Chunhong Yang

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China

Zhihua Ju

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China

Xiuge Wang

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China

Qiang Jiang

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China

Yan Sun

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China

Jinming Huang

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China

Jifeng Zhong

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China

Changfa Wang

wangcf1967@163.com

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Science, Jinan, 250131, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZ CY QJ YS JH JZ CW. Performed the experiments: SZ YZ ZJ XW. Analyzed the data: SZ YZ CY ZJ XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZ YZ CY QJ YS JH JZ CW. Wrote the paper: SZ YZ CY.