About the Authors

Xiaolong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolong Wang, Bei Cai, Jiankui Zhou

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Bei Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolong Wang, Bei Cai, Jiankui Zhou

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Jiankui Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolong Wang, Bei Cai, Jiankui Zhou

Affiliations MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice, Nanjing 210061, China, School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China

Haijing Zhu

Affiliations Shaanxi Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center of Cashmere Goats, Yulin 719000, China, Life Science Research Center, Yulin University, Yulin 719000, China

Yiyuan Niu

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Baohua Ma

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Honghao Yu

Affiliations Shaanxi Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center of Cashmere Goats, Yulin 719000, China, Life Science Research Center, Yulin University, Yulin 719000, China

Anmin Lei

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Hailong Yan

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China, Shaanxi Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center of Cashmere Goats, Yulin 719000, China, Life Science Research Center, Yulin University, Yulin 719000, China

Qiaoyan Shen

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Lei Shi

Affiliations Shaanxi Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center of Cashmere Goats, Yulin 719000, China, Life Science Research Center, Yulin University, Yulin 719000, China

Xiaoe Zhao

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Jinlian Hua

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Xingxu Huang

chenyulin@nwafu.edu.cn (YC); ylqulei@126.com (LQ); xingxuhuang@mail.nju.edu.cn (XH)

Affiliations MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice, Nanjing 210061, China, School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China

Lei Qu

chenyulin@nwafu.edu.cn (YC); ylqulei@126.com (LQ); xingxuhuang@mail.nju.edu.cn (XH)

Affiliations Shaanxi Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center of Cashmere Goats, Yulin 719000, China, Life Science Research Center, Yulin University, Yulin 719000, China

Yulin Chen

chenyulin@nwafu.edu.cn (YC); ylqulei@126.com (LQ); xingxuhuang@mail.nju.edu.cn (XH)

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XW XH YC. Data curation: LS XZ JH HZ. Formal analysis: BC HYan. Funding acquisition: XW XH LQ YC. Methodology: XW XH. Project administration: BM LQ YC. Resources: HYu AL HZ. Software: BC YN. Supervision: YC. Validation: JZ QS. Writing – original draft: XW. Writing – review & editing: JZ YN XH.