About the Authors

XiangJin Kang
QingDong Xie
XiaoLing Zhou
FangZheng Li

Current address: College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

JiHua Huang
DongLing Liu
TianHua Huang

thhuang@stu.edu.cn

Affiliation Research Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: THH XJK. Performed the experiments: XJK QDX. Analyzed the data: THH XJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XLZ FZL JHH DLL. Wrote the paper: THH XJK.