About the Authors

Yuqiang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuqiang Liu, Guoyao Zhao

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Innovation Team of Cattle Genetic Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Guoyao Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuqiang Liu, Guoyao Zhao

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Innovation Team of Cattle Genetic Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaojue Lin

Roles Resources

Affiliation College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Jiahao Zhang

Roles Resources

Affiliation College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Guanyu Hou

Roles Resources

Affiliation Tropical Crop Germplasm Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Hainan, China

Luepei Zhang

Roles Resources

Affiliation Innovation Team of Cattle Genetic Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Dewu Liu

Roles Resources

Affiliation College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Yaokun Li

Roles Resources

Affiliation College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Junya Li

Roles Writing – review & editing

lijunya@caas.cn (JL); xulingyang@caas.cn (LX)

Affiliation Innovation Team of Cattle Genetic Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Lingyang Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

lijunya@caas.cn (JL); xulingyang@caas.cn (LX)

Affiliation Innovation Team of Cattle Genetic Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.