About the Authors

Xiaoling Chen

xlchen@sicau.edu.cn (XC); zqhuang@sicau.edu.cn (ZH)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of China Ministry of Education, Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611130, P. R. China

Bo Zhou

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of China Ministry of Education, Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611130, P. R. China

Yanliu Luo

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of China Ministry of Education, Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611130, P. R. China

Zhiqing Huang

xlchen@sicau.edu.cn (XC); zqhuang@sicau.edu.cn (ZH)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of China Ministry of Education, Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611130, P. R. China

Gang Jia

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of China Ministry of Education, Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611130, P. R. China

Guangmang Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of China Ministry of Education, Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611130, P. R. China

Hua Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of China Ministry of Education, Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611130, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC ZH. Performed the experiments: XC BZ YL. Analyzed the data: XC BZ YL ZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC ZH GJ GL HZ. Wrote the paper: XC.