About the Authors
- Qi Xu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Xu, WenMing Zhao
Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
- WenMing Zhao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Xu, WenMing Zhao
Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Yang Chen
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
- YiYu Tong
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
- GuangHui Rong
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
- ZhengYang Huang
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Yang Zhang
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
- GuoBing Chang
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
- XinSheng Wu
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
- GuoHong Chen
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* E-mail: ghchen@yzu.edu.cn
Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics & Breeding and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests: Jiangsu Lihua Animal Husbandry CO. LTD provided the animal sample. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GHC WMZ QX. Performed the experiments: QX WMZ. Analyzed the data: QX YC YYT GHR ZYH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QX YZ GBC XSW. Wrote the paper: QU WMZ.