About the Authors

Mei Jin

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Jing Wang

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Ming-Xing Chu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Jun Piao

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Jing-Ai Piao

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Feng-Qin Zhao

eco-env@163.com

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MJ JW MXC. Data curation: MJ JW FQZ. Formal analysis: MJ JW FQZ. Funding acquisition: MJ JP. Investigation: MJ. Methodology: MJ MXC. Project administration: MJ MXC. Resources: MJ FQZ. Software: MJ FQZ. Supervision: MJ. Validation: MJ JW JP JAP. Visualization: JW. Writing – original draft: JW. Writing – review & editing: JW JP JAP.