About the Authors

Chuen-Yu Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuen-Yu Cheng, Wei-Lin Tu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Wei-Lin Tu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuen-Yu Cheng, Wei-Lin Tu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Shih-Han Wang

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Pin-Chi Tang

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Center for the Integrative and Evolutionary Galliformes Genomics, iEGG Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chih-Feng Chen

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Center for the Integrative and Evolutionary Galliformes Genomics, iEGG Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Hsin-Hsin Chen

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yen-Pai Lee

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Shuen-Ei Chen

shueneic@dragon.nchu.edu.tw (SEC); syhuang@dragon.nchu.edu.tw (SYH)

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Center for the Integrative and Evolutionary Galliformes Genomics, iEGG Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

San-Yuan Huang

shueneic@dragon.nchu.edu.tw (SEC); syhuang@dragon.nchu.edu.tw (SYH)

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Center for the Integrative and Evolutionary Galliformes Genomics, iEGG Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCT CFC YPL SEC SYH. Performed the experiments: CYC WLT SHW HHC. Analyzed the data: CYC WLT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CFC YPL SYH. Wrote the paper: CYC WLT SEC SYH.