About the Authors

Zhihong Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihong Wu, Erhan Hai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Erhan Hai

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihong Wu, Erhan Hai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Zhengyang Di

Roles Data curation

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Rong Ma

Roles Methodology

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Fangzheng Shang

Roles Software

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Yu Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Min Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Lili Liang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Youjun Rong

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Jianfeng Pan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Wenbin Wu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zhenlai Hehe Animal Husbandry Development Co., Ltd, Baicheng, China

Rui Su

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Zhiying Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Ruijun Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Yanjun Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

lijinquan_nd@126.com (JL); imauzyj@163.com, imauzyj@imau.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliations College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, Engineering Research Center for Goat Genetics and Breeding, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Jinquan Li

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

lijinquan_nd@126.com (JL); imauzyj@163.com, imauzyj@imau.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliations College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, Key Laboratory of Mutton Sheep Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Hohhot, China, Engineering Research Center for Goat Genetics and Breeding, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist