About the Authors

Qinghai Hu

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yinyu Zhu

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Jing Tu

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Yuncong Yin

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Xiaolan Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Xiangan Han

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Chan Ding

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Beimin Zhang

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Shengqing Yu

yus@shvri.ac.cn

Affiliations Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, China National Engineering Technology Research Centre for Poultry, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QH SY. Performed the experiments: QH YZ JT YY. Analyzed the data: QH XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH CD BZ. Wrote the paper: QH SY.