About the Authors

Yu Xi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Huijing Liu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Yuqiang Zhao

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Ji Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Wenchao Li

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Guorong Liu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Jiayong Lin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Wanghong Liu

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Swine Breeding Quality Supervision and Inspection Center of the Ministry of Agriculture (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Jinlong Zhang

Roles Resources

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Minggang Lei

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

leimg@mail.hzau.edu.cn (ML); nidebin@mail.hzau.edu.cn (DN)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction, Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Swine Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Swine Breeding Quality Supervision and Inspection Center of the Ministry of Agriculture (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, National Engineering Research Center For Livestock, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Debin Ni

Roles Project administration

leimg@mail.hzau.edu.cn (ML); nidebin@mail.hzau.edu.cn (DN)

Affiliation Swine Breeding Quality Supervision and Inspection Center of the Ministry of Agriculture (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.