About the Authors

Fugui Yin

Affiliation Guelph Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Hai Yu

Affiliation Guelph Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Dion Lepp

Affiliation Guelph Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Xuejiang Shi

Affiliation Next Generation Sequencing Platforms, Clinical Genomics Centre, the UHN/MSH Gene Profiling Facility, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Xiaojian Yang

Affiliation Guelph Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Jielun Hu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Steve Leeson

Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Chengbo Yang

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Shaoping Nie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Yongqing Hou

Affiliation Hubei Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Joshua Gong

joshua.gong@agr.gc.ca

Affiliation Guelph Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FY HY JG. Funding acquisition: JG. Investigation: FY HY XS JH SL CY. Methodology: FY HY XS JH SL CY. Resources: SN YH JG. Software: FY DL XY. Supervision: JG. Visualization: FY. Writing - original draft: FY JG. Writing - review & editing: FY JG.