About the Authors

Wuyun Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Ecological Agriculture in Horqin Sandy Land, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Wuhan, China, College of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China, Mongolian University of Life Sciences, School of Animal science & Biotechnology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Toxicant Monitoring and Toxicology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Huarong Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

xiaoyuzi2003@126.com (HY); dongwu@imun.edu.cn, dongwu2002@hotmail.com (WD)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Ecological Agriculture in Horqin Sandy Land, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Wuhan, China, College of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

D. Gurbazar

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mongolian University of Life Sciences, School of Animal science & Biotechnology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

D. Rinchindorj

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mongolian University of Life Sciences, School of Animal science & Biotechnology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Wei Kang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Toxicant Monitoring and Toxicology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Chelimuge Qi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Toxicant Monitoring and Toxicology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Hongsong Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Toxicant Monitoring and Toxicology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Xu Chang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Toxicant Monitoring and Toxicology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Huan You

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Tongliao Animal Husbandry Development Center, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Yongmei Han

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Toxicant Monitoring and Toxicology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Zhigang Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Ecological Agriculture in Horqin Sandy Land, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Wuhan, China, College of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Ahmed R. G.

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Zoology Department, Division of Anatomy and Embryology, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt

Wu Dong

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xiaoyuzi2003@126.com (HY); dongwu@imun.edu.cn, dongwu2002@hotmail.com (WD)

Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Toxicant Monitoring and Toxicology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.