About the Authors

Caijin Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Qinghai Academy of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining, Qinghai, China, Guyuan Branch, Ningxia Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Guyuan, Ningxia, China, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Mingfang Bao

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

Affiliations Qinghai Academy of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining, Qinghai, China, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Yanxia Zeng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Conceptualization

Affiliation Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Xuemin Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

wangxuemin@caas.cn (XW); 2002990027@qhu.edu.cn (WL)

‡ XW and WL are joint senior authors.

Affiliation Guyuan Branch, Ningxia Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Guyuan, Ningxia, China

Wenhui Liu

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

wangxuemin@caas.cn (XW); 2002990027@qhu.edu.cn (WL)

‡ XW and WL are joint senior authors.

Affiliation Qinghai Academy of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining, Qinghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.