About the Authors

Lingling Qiu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, PR, China

Guobin Chang

Roles Funding acquisition

gbchang@yzu.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, PR, China

Yulin Bi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, PR, China

Xiangping Liu

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Poultry Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yangzhou, PR, China

Guohong Chen

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, PR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.