About the Authors

Tianfei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianfei Liu, Chenglong Luo

Affiliations Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, China

Chenglong Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianfei Liu, Chenglong Luo

Affiliations Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, China

Jie Wang

Affiliations Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, China

Jie Ma

Affiliations Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Nutrition, Guangzhou, China

Dingming Shu

Affiliations Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, China

Mogens Sandø Lund

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark

Guosheng Su

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark

Hao Qu

qhw03@163.com

Affiliations Institute of Animal Science, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Breeding, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TL GS HQ. Data curation: CL JW JM. Formal analysis: TL CL. Funding acquisition: TL DS HQ. Investigation: TL CL JW JM. Methodology: TL CL GS. Project administration: TL CL DS HQ. Resources: CL JW JM. Software: TL CL GS MSL. Supervision: HQ. Validation: TL CL GS HQ. Visualization: TL. Writing – original draft: TL. Writing – review & editing: CL JW JM DS MSL GS HQ.