About the Authors

Wei Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Han, Yunfen Zhu

Affiliation National Chickens Genetic Resources, Poultry institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, PR China

Yunfen Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Han, Yunfen Zhu

Affiliation National Chickens Genetic Resources, Poultry institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, PR China

Yijun Su

Affiliation National Chickens Genetic Resources, Poultry institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, PR China

Guohui Li

Affiliation National Chickens Genetic Resources, Poultry institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, PR China

Liang Qu

Affiliation National Chickens Genetic Resources, Poultry institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, PR China

Huiyong Zhang

Affiliation National Chickens Genetic Resources, Poultry institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, PR China

Kehua Wang

Affiliation National Chickens Genetic Resources, Poultry institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, PR China

Jianmin Zou

jqszjm@163.com (JMZ); liuhonglin@njau.edu.cn (HLL).

Affiliation National Chickens Genetic Resources, Poultry institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, PR China

Honglin Liu

jqszjm@163.com (JMZ); liuhonglin@njau.edu.cn (HLL).

Affiliation College of Animal Science & Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH YFZ JMZ HLL. Performed the experiments: WH YFZ. Analyzed the data: GHL LQ HYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJS KHW. Wrote the paper: WH YFZ JMZ HLL.