About the Authors

Zubing Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zubing Cao, Renyun Hong

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Local Livestock and Poultry, Genetical Resource Conservation and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Renyun Hong

Contributed equally to this work with: Zubing Cao, Renyun Hong

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Local Livestock and Poultry, Genetical Resource Conservation and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Biao Ding

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Local Livestock and Poultry, Genetical Resource Conservation and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Xiaoyuan Zuo

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Local Livestock and Poultry, Genetical Resource Conservation and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Hui Li

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Local Livestock and Poultry, Genetical Resource Conservation and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Jianping Ding

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Local Livestock and Poultry, Genetical Resource Conservation and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Yunsheng Li

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Local Livestock and Poultry, Genetical Resource Conservation and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Weiping Huang

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Local Livestock and Poultry, Genetical Resource Conservation and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Yunhai Zhang

yunhaizhang@ahau.edu.cn

Affiliation Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Local Livestock and Poultry, Genetical Resource Conservation and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZBC YHZ. Formal analysis: ZBC JPD YSL WPH YHZ. Funding acquisition: YHZ. Investigation: ZBC RYH BD XYZ HL. Methodology: ZBC RYH BD XYZ HL. Resources: YHZ. Validation: YHZ. Writing – original draft: ZBC YHZ. Writing – review & editing: ZBC YHZ.