About the Authors

Rong Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China, School of Life Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030006, P. R. China

Li Gong

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, P. R. China

Xianli Xue

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China

Xing Qin

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China

Rui Ma

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China

Huiying Luo

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China

Yongjie Zhang

zhangyj2008@sxu.edu.cn (YZ); binyao@caas.cn (BY); suxiaoyun@caas.cn (XS)

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030006, P. R. China

Bin Yao

zhangyj2008@sxu.edu.cn (YZ); binyao@caas.cn (BY); suxiaoyun@caas.cn (XS)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China

Xiaoyun Su

zhangyj2008@sxu.edu.cn (YZ); binyao@caas.cn (BY); suxiaoyun@caas.cn (XS)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ BY XS. Performed the experiments: RW LG XX. Analyzed the data: RW XQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RW HL. Wrote the paper: RW RM XS.