About the Authors

Cunling Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Cunling Jia, Xiaoyan Kong

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

Xiaoyan Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Cunling Jia, Xiaoyan Kong

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

James E. Koltes

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America

Xiao Gou

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Shuli Yang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Dawei Yan

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Shaoxiong Lu

weizehui7848@163.com (ZHW); shxl@126.com (SXL)

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Zehui Wei

weizehui7848@163.com (ZHW); shxl@126.com (SXL)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CLJ ZHW. Formal analysis: CLJ ZHW JEK. Funding acquisition: ZHW. Investigation: XYK CLJ XG SLY SXL DWY. Project administration: SXL. Supervision: ZHW. Visualization: CLJ. Writing – original draft: CLJ XYK ZHW. Writing – review & editing: JEK ZHW SXL.