About the Authors

Yao Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Biology and Medicine, College of Life Science and Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yu Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Tao Shi

Roles Project administration

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Hanfang Cai

Roles Project administration

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Xianyong Lan

Roles Resources

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Xin Zhao

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Martin Plath

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Hong Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

chenhong1212@263.net

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.