About the Authors

Bao Yuan

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Animals, College of Animal Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China, Molecular Embryology Laboratory, Department of Animal Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Shuang Liang

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Animals, College of Animal Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China, Molecular Embryology Laboratory, Department of Animal Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Yong-Xun Jin

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Animals, College of Animal Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Ming-Jun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Animals, College of Animal Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Jia-Bao Zhang

nhkim@chungbuk.ac.kr (NK); zjb515@126.com (JZ)

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Animals, College of Animal Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Nam-Hyung Kim

nhkim@chungbuk.ac.kr (NK); zjb515@126.com (JZ)

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Animals, College of Animal Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China, Molecular Embryology Laboratory, Department of Animal Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NHK JBZ. Data curation: BY SL YXJ. Formal analysis: BY SL MJZ. Funding acquisition: NHK JBZ BY. Investigation: BY SL YXJ MJZ. Project administration: NHK JBZ MJZ. Resources: BY SL YXJ MJZ. Supervision: NHK JBZ. Validation: BY SL. Writing – original draft: BY SL. Writing – review & editing: JBZ NHK.