About the Authors

Jian Kang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Chongyang Ge

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Lei Yu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Longlong Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Haitian Ma

mahaitian@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HTM. Performed the experiments: JK. Analyzed the data: CYG LY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LLL. Wrote the paper: JK CYG.