About the Authors

Jihye Baek

Contributed equally to this work with: Jihye Baek, Chun-Long Yan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea

Chun-Long Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jihye Baek, Chun-Long Yan

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Agriculture, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin, China, Engineering Research Center of North-East Cold Region Beef Cattle Science and Technology Innovation, Ministry of Education, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin, China

Qingshan Gao

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

Affiliations College of Agriculture, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin, China, Engineering Research Center of North-East Cold Region Beef Cattle Science and Technology Innovation, Ministry of Education, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin, China

Seungwoo Son

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Convergence Technology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea

Hak-kyo Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Animal Biotechnology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea, Department of Agricultural Convergence Technology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea

Donghyun Shin

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

sdh1214@gmail.com (DS); ycq@ybu.edu.cn (C-GY)

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Convergence Technology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea

Chang-Guo Yan

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources

sdh1214@gmail.com (DS); ycq@ybu.edu.cn (C-GY)

Affiliations College of Agriculture, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin, China, Engineering Research Center of North-East Cold Region Beef Cattle Science and Technology Innovation, Ministry of Education, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.