About the Authors

Yang Wang

wangyocean@163.com (YW); xmao@shvri.ac.cn (XM)

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China

Li Yi

Affiliations Department of Life Science, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang, China, Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Shaohui Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China

Hongjie Fan

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Chan Ding

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China

Xiang Mao

wangyocean@163.com (YW); xmao@shvri.ac.cn (XM)

Affiliations Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China, Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Chengping Lu

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW XM CL. Performed the experiments: YW LY SW. Analyzed the data: XM LY HF CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW SW. Wrote the paper: YW LY XM.