About the Authors

Hong Lan

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Lan, Xier Luo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

☯ Hong Lan and Xier Luo contribute equally to this work.

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Molecular Design and Precise Breeding, School of Animal Science and Technology, Foshan University, Foshan, China

Xier Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Lan, Xier Luo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

☯ Hong Lan and Xier Luo contribute equally to this work.

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Molecular Design and Precise Breeding, School of Animal Science and Technology, Foshan University, Foshan, China

Dingyun Xu

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Molecular Design and Precise Breeding, School of Animal Science and Technology, Foshan University, Foshan, China

Kuiqing Cui

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Molecular Design and Precise Breeding, School of Animal Science and Technology, Foshan University, Foshan, China

Ling Li

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Guangxi Buffalo Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning, China

Chuan Li

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Molecular Design and Precise Breeding, School of Animal Science and Technology, Foshan University, Foshan, China

Hao Qi

Roles Methodology, Supervision

qyliu-gene@fosu.edu.cn (QL); qihao77@fosu.edu.cn (HQ)

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Molecular Design and Precise Breeding, School of Animal Science and Technology, Foshan University, Foshan, China

Qingyou Liu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

qyliu-gene@fosu.edu.cn (QL); qihao77@fosu.edu.cn (HQ)

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Molecular Design and Precise Breeding, School of Animal Science and Technology, Foshan University, Foshan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.