About the Authors

Hongxiang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxiang Zhang, Fan Wu, Wenli Guo

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Fan Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxiang Zhang, Fan Wu, Wenli Guo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Wenli Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxiang Zhang, Fan Wu, Wenli Guo

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Rong Bai

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Zhuanzhuan Yan

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Blaise Pascal Muvunyi

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Qi Yan

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Yufei Zhang

Roles Validation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Xianfeng Yi

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

1154128631@qq.com (XY); zhangjy@lzu.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliation Guangxi Institute of Animal Sciences, Nanning, China

Jiyu Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation

1154128631@qq.com (XY); zhangjy@lzu.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.