About the Authors

Rui-Song Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui-Song Ye, Meng Li

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Meng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui-Song Ye, Meng Li

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Qi-En Qi

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Xiao Cheng

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Ting Chen

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Chao-Yun Li

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Song-Bo Wang

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Gang Shu

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Li-Na Wang

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Xiao-Tong Zhu

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Qing-Yan Jiang

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Qian-Yun Xi

zhangyl@scau.edu.cn (YLZ); xqy0228@163.com (QYX)

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Yong-Liang Zhang

zhangyl@scau.edu.cn (YLZ); xqy0228@163.com (QYX)

Affiliation Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, SCAU-Alltech Research Joint Alliance, Guandong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics And Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QYJ QYX YLZ. Performed the experiments: RSY ML QEQ XC CYL. Analyzed the data: RSY QYX QEQ TC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RSY QEQ TC GS SBW XTZ LNW. Wrote the paper: RSY YLZ.