About the Authors

Rui Chen

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ FW co-first author on this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Fu Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

‡ FW co-first author on this work.

Affiliation Guizhou Testing Center for Livestock and Poultry Germplasm, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Shuanglong Xie

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Yiming Ban

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Chengcheng Gao

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Peiyao Li

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Jixiao Qin

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Yiqing Xu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Qi Lu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Xu Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China, School of Animal Technology and Innovation, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

Xingzhou Tian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

tianxingzhou@yeah.net

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction in the Plateau Mountainous Region, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.