About the Authors

Pengxiang Qu

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China

Suzhu Qing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China

Ruiqi Liu

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China

Hongyu Qin

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China

Weiwei Wang

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China

Fang Qiao

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China

Hui Ge

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China

Jun Liu

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China

Yong Zhang

zhy1956@263.net (YZ); wcui@umass.edu (WC); wangyongsheng01@nwsuaf.edu.cn (YW)

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China

Wei Cui

zhy1956@263.net (YZ); wcui@umass.edu (WC); wangyongsheng01@nwsuaf.edu.cn (YW)

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yongsheng Wang

zhy1956@263.net (YZ); wcui@umass.edu (WC); wangyongsheng01@nwsuaf.edu.cn (YW)

Affiliations College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WC YW YZ. Data curation: PQ YW. Formal analysis: PQ YW WC. Investigation: PQ SQ RL HQ WW FQ HG JL. Resources: YW YZ JL. Validation: PQ YW. Writing – original draft: WC YW PQ. Writing – review & editing: WC YW PQ.