About the Authors

Bin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Liu, Fengqin Gao

Affiliations Institute of Animal Husbandry, Academy of Agriculture and Stockbreeding Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, Kunming Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunna, Inner Mongolia, China

Fengqin Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Liu, Fengqin Gao

Affiliation Grassland Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, China

Jun Guo

Affiliation College of Life Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Dubala Wu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry, Academy of Agriculture and Stockbreeding Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Bayasihuliang Hao

Affiliation Etuokeqianqi Arctic God Research Institute of Cashmere and Livestock, Erdos, China

Yurong Li

zhaocunfa@163.com (CZ); yurong622003@126.com (YL)

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry, Academy of Agriculture and Stockbreeding Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Cunfa Zhao

zhaocunfa@163.com (CZ); yurong622003@126.com (YL)

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry, Academy of Agriculture and Stockbreeding Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL CZ BL. Performed the experiments: BL FG JG DW. Analyzed the data: BL FG JG DW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW BH. Wrote the paper: YL CZ BL JG.