About the Authors

Kai Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Qiu, Chun Fu. Qin

Affiliation State Key Lab of Animal Nutrition & Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre, College of Animal Science & Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Chun Fu. Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Qiu, Chun Fu. Qin

Affiliation State Key Lab of Animal Nutrition & Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre, College of Animal Science & Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Min Luo

Affiliation Chongqing Academy of Animal Science, Rongchang, Chongqing, 450023, China

Xin Zhang

Affiliation State Key Lab of Animal Nutrition & Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre, College of Animal Science & Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Wen Juan Sun

Affiliation State Key Lab of Animal Nutrition & Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre, College of Animal Science & Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Ning Jiao

Affiliation State Key Lab of Animal Nutrition & Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre, College of Animal Science & Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

De Fa Li

Affiliation State Key Lab of Animal Nutrition & Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre, College of Animal Science & Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Jing Dong Yin

yinjd@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Lab of Animal Nutrition & Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre, College of Animal Science & Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY DL. Performed the experiments: KQ CQ WS. Analyzed the data: KQ ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KQ NJ XZ. Wrote the paper: KQ JY.