About the Authors

Zhuoxian Weng

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhuoxian Weng, Yongjie Xu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Conservation and Precision Utilization of Characteristic Agricultural Resources in Mountainous Areas, Meizhou, China, Guangdong Innovation Centre for Science and Technology of Wuhua Yellow Chicken, Meizhou, China

Yongjie Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhuoxian Weng, Yongjie Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Conservation and Precision Utilization of Characteristic Agricultural Resources in Mountainous Areas, Meizhou, China, Guangdong Innovation Centre for Science and Technology of Wuhua Yellow Chicken, Meizhou, China, School of Life Science, Jiaying University, Meizhou, China

Weina Li

Roles Resources

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Conservation and Precision Utilization of Characteristic Agricultural Resources in Mountainous Areas, Meizhou, China, Guangdong Innovation Centre for Science and Technology of Wuhua Yellow Chicken, Meizhou, China, School of Life Science, Jiaying University, Meizhou, China

Jiebo Chen

Roles Resources

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Conservation and Precision Utilization of Characteristic Agricultural Resources in Mountainous Areas, Meizhou, China, Guangdong Innovation Centre for Science and Technology of Wuhua Yellow Chicken, Meizhou, China

Ming Zhong

Roles Resources

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Conservation and Precision Utilization of Characteristic Agricultural Resources in Mountainous Areas, Meizhou, China, Guangdong Innovation Centre for Science and Technology of Wuhua Yellow Chicken, Meizhou, China, School of Life Science, Jiaying University, Meizhou, China

Fusheng Zhong

Roles Resources

Affiliations College of Animal Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, Guangdong Innovation Centre for Science and Technology of Wuhua Yellow Chicken, Meizhou, China, School of Life Science, Jiaying University, Meizhou, China

Bingwang Du

Roles Resources

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Conservation and Precision Utilization of Characteristic Agricultural Resources in Mountainous Areas, Meizhou, China, Guangdong Innovation Centre for Science and Technology of Wuhua Yellow Chicken, Meizhou, China, School of Life Science, Jiaying University, Meizhou, China

Bin Zhang

Roles Supervision

zhb8236@126.com (BZ); hxh826@jyu.edu.cn (XH)

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Xunhe Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zhb8236@126.com (BZ); hxh826@jyu.edu.cn (XH)

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Conservation and Precision Utilization of Characteristic Agricultural Resources in Mountainous Areas, Meizhou, China, Guangdong Innovation Centre for Science and Technology of Wuhua Yellow Chicken, Meizhou, China, School of Life Science, Jiaying University, Meizhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.