About the Authors

Wei Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Education Department of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Tianmu Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Education Department of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Chunyan Wu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Education Department of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Shanshan Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Education Department of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Yuxiang Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Education Department of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Hui Li

wangning@neau.edu.cn (NW); lihui@neau.edu.cn (HL)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Education Department of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Ning Wang

wangning@neau.edu.cn (NW); lihui@neau.edu.cn (HL)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Education Department of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NW HL. Data curation: WW. Formal analysis: WW. Funding acquisition: NW HL. Investigation: WW. Methodology: WW NW HL. Project administration: NW HL. Resources: NW HL WW TZ CW SW YW. Supervision: NW HL. Validation: WW NW HL. Visualization: WW. Writing – original draft: WW. Writing – review & editing: NW HL.