About the Authors

Huihua Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huihua Wang, Li Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Li Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huihua Wang, Li Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Jiaxve Cao

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Mingming Wu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Xiaomeng Ma

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Zhen Liu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Ruizao Liu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Fuping Zhao

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Caihong Wei

weicaihong@caas.cn (CW); lxdu@263.net (LD)

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Lixin Du

weicaihong@caas.cn (CW); lxdu@263.net (LD)

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW LD. Performed the experiments: ZL RL XM. Analyzed the data: HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW JC FZ. Wrote the paper: HW CW LZ.