About the Authors

Tianle Chao

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China

Guizhi Wang

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China

Jianmin Wang

wangjm@sdau.edu.cn

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China

Zhaohua Liu

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China

Zhibin Ji

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China

Lei Hou

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China

Chunlan Zhang

Affiliation College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Weifang University, Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Universities of Shandong, Weifang 261061, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMW TLC. Performed the experiments: TLC CLZ. Analyzed the data: TLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMW TLC GZW ZHL. Wrote the paper: JMW TLC ZBJ LH.