About the Authors

Manman Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Manman Shen, Liang Qu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Liang Qu

Contributed equally to this work with: Manman Shen, Liang Qu

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China

Meng Ma

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China

Taocun Dou

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China

Jian Lu

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China

Jun Guo

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China

Yuping Hu

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China

Xingguo Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China

Yongfeng Li

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China

Kehua Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

sqbreeding@126.com (KW); nyang@cau.edu.cn (NY)

Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou, China

Ning Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

sqbreeding@126.com (KW); nyang@cau.edu.cn (NY)

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.