About the Authors

Yong Zhao

Affiliations College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproduction and Germplasm Enhancement in Universities of Shandong, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Lan Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Reproduction and Germplasm Enhancement in Universities of Shandong, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Ling-Jiang Min

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Reproduction and Germplasm Enhancement in Universities of Shandong, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Lian-Qin Zhu

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Qing-Yuan Sun

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Reproduction and Germplasm Enhancement in Universities of Shandong, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China

Hong-Fu Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China

Xin-Qi Liu

Affiliation College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Wei-Dong Zhang

Affiliations College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Animal Reproduction and Germplasm Enhancement in Universities of Shandong, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Wei Ge

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Reproduction and Germplasm Enhancement in Universities of Shandong, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Jun-Jie Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Reproduction and Germplasm Enhancement in Universities of Shandong, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Jing-Cai Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Reproduction and Germplasm Enhancement in Universities of Shandong, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Zhi-Hui Hao

zHao6276@hotmail.com

Affiliation College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZH YZ LL. Performed the experiments: YZ LM XL WZ WG JW JL. Analyzed the data: LZ HZ QS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL. Wrote the paper: ZH YZ LL.