About the Authors

Guoqiang Yi

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoqiang Yi, Jingwei Yuan, Huijuan Bi

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jingwei Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoqiang Yi, Jingwei Yuan, Huijuan Bi

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Huijuan Bi

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoqiang Yi, Jingwei Yuan, Huijuan Bi

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Wei Yan

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Ning Yang

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Lujiang Qu

quluj@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LQ NY. Performed the experiments: HB. Analyzed the data: GY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY WY GY. Wrote the paper: GY LQ NY.