About the Authors

Zhengtian Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhengtian Li, Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lizhengtian@mail.qjnu.edu.cn (ZL); ishfaq.ahmad@iub.edu.pk (HIA)

Affiliation College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Yunnan, 655011, China

Mubbashar Hassan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Theriogenology Section, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Jhang, Sub Campus UVAS, Lahore, Pakistan

Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhengtian Li, Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lizhengtian@mail.qjnu.edu.cn (ZL); ishfaq.ahmad@iub.edu.pk (HIA)

Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Muhammad Adnan Ashraf

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Akhtar Rasool Asif

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Jhang, Sub Campus UVAS, Lahore, Pakistan, College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Iram Qadeer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Govt. Sadiq College Women University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Abid Hussain Shahzad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Theriogenology Section, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Jhang, Sub Campus UVAS, Lahore, Pakistan

Shaista Abbas

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Basics Sciences, Physiology Section, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Jhang, Sub Campus UVAS, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Sajid

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Jhang, Sub Campus UVAS, Lahore, Pakistan

Abdul Mateen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Jhang, Sub Campus UVAS, Lahore, Pakistan

Irfan Ahmed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Jamal Muhammad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Sayyed Aun Muhammad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Jhang, Sub Campus UVAS, Lahore, Pakistan

Farid S. Ataya

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, PO Box 2455, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.